Arctic Ice

Mad Scientists Freeze Their Boat To Arctic Ice (VIDEO)

MSNBC | Dave Burdick | Posted 05.25.2009 | Green


"Future Earth" is a four-part doc series on the planet, premiering this weekend. The first episode follows a you've-got-to-be-kidding-me expedition of...

Arctic sea ice thinnest ever going into spring

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 05.07.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — The Arctic is treading on thinner ice than ever before. Researchers say that as spring begins, more than 90 percent of the sea ice ...

Study: Arctic Sea Ice Melting Faster Than Expected

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.03.2009 | Green


WASHINGTON — Arctic sea ice is melting so fast most of it could be gone in 30 years. A new analysis of changing conditions in the region, using ...

Melting Arctic Ice Could Spark New Energy Conflicts

Reuters AlertNet | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green


Climate change and rising sea levels pose one of the biggest threats to security in the Pacific and may also spark a global conflict over energy reser...

Arctic Ice Melt At Point Of No Return

The Independent | Steve Connor | Posted 01.16.2009 | Green


Scientists have found the first unequivocal evidence that the Arctic region is warming at a faster rate than the rest of the world at least a decade b...

Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN and DAN JOLING | Posted 09.27.2008 | Green


WASHINGTON — More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening befor...

Canadian Ice Shelf Loses 7-Square-Mile Section

AP | Posted 08.07.2008 | Green


EDMONTON, Alberta — A chunk of ice spreading across seven square miles has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists said Tuesda...

Arctic Ice Receding Due To Atmospheric Warming, Not Underwater Volcanoes

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 07.10.2008 | Green


There was an eruption of assertions in recent days that the increasing summer retreats and thinning of Arctic Ocean sea ice might be a result not of a...