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Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | about 12 hours ago
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New Zealand — Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday. A shipping alert was sent out last week and maritime...
Tags: New Zealand Strong, Ross Sea Ice Shelf, Ronne Ice Shelf, ice shelves, Antarctica, New Zealand, Wellington, Environment, Sea ice, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Glaciers of Antarctica, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Climate change, Ice shelf, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf
Polar bears eating young due to shrinking sea ice: Scientists
Toronto :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Scientists fear polar bears won't survive severe climate change. Scientists say shrinking Arctic sea ice may be forcing some polar bears into cannibalizing young cubs. "When (bears) are very hungry, they go looking for something to eat," biologist Ian...
Tags: polar bears, sea ice, bears eating, Canada, Toronto, Environment, Ian Stirling, Inuit culture, Bears, Wapusk National Park, Hudson Bay, Manitoba, Arctic, Human Interest
Canadian researcher says arctic ice is thinning
Winnipeg :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Manitoba — The permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared, a Canadian researcher said Friday. University of Manitoba Arctic researcher David Barber said experts around the world...
Tags: sea ice, polar bears, University of Manitoba Arctic, researcher says, usually survives, arctic ice, arctic researcher, David Barber, Canada, Winnipeg, Environment, Polar ice packs, Glaciology, Arctic, Polar bear, Arctic Ocean, Articulated vehicles, Ice, Agricultural machinery, Hospitality Recreation, Trailer, Manitoba, Ice age, Poles, Northwest Passage, Semi-trailer truck, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Climatology, Beaufort Sea, Tractor
Business Books: Arctic melts, but no big "Cold Rush" for oil
Oslo :: Norway | 4 days ago
Credibility The Arctic is thawing fast because of global warming but a big "Cold Rush" for offshore oil and gas looks unlikely because of icebergs and high costs, a new book says. A retreat of Arctic ice in summers is changing indigenous peoples' livelihoods and...
Tags: cold rush, Norway, Oslo, Environment, Sea ice, Climate change, Global warming, Extreme points of Earth, Polar bear, Arctic, Poles, Polar ice packs
Warming's impacts sped up, worsened since Kyoto
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated — beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened...
Tags: U.S. West, U.S. Senate, global warming, sea ice, climate change, Kyoto Protocol, ice sheets, Antarctica, carbon dioxide, Greenland, Washington, Environment, Future sea level, Regional effects of global warming, Current sea level rise
Massive icebergs heading to New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | 6 days ago
Credibility New Zealand is preparing for some rare spring visitors. More than 100 icebergs that were first spotted off the coast of Macquarie Island, an Australian territory around 900 miles south east of Tasmania, are now thought to be only 200 miles away from New...
Tags: New Zealand, South Pacific, Antarctica, Stewart Island, ice shelves, antarctic ice, NZPA, Wellington, Environment, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Ice shelves of Antarctica, Iceberg B-15, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Icebergs, Ice, Sea ice, Ice shelf, Glaciology, Disaster Accident
Icebergs head from Antarctica for New Zealand
Wellington :: New Zealand | 8 days ago
Credibility New Zealand — Ships in the south Pacific Ocean have been alerted that groups of icebergs believed to have split off Antarctic ice shelves are drifting north toward New Zealand, officials said Tuesday. The alert comes three years after cold weather and...
Tags: New Zealand, Wellington, Environment, Iceberg, Physical oceanography, Icebergs, Iceberg B-15, Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Ice shelf, British Antarctic Territory, Southern Ocean, Iceberg C-19, Sea ice, Antarctica, Glaciology
Climate change causing 'corrosive' water to affect Arctic marine life: study
Kawai :: Japan | 11 days ago
Credibility Scientists have uncovered a large expanse of "corrosive" water in the Canadian Arctic that is putting the marine food web at risk. The waters have been so altered by climate change and melting sea ice that plankton, shellfish and fish may have trouble...
Tags: Fiona McLaughlin, sea ice, surface water, climate change, Beaufort Sea, Japan, Kawai, Hydrides, Oxides, Ocean acidification, Arctic, Polar ice packs, Aquatic ecology, Biological oceanography, Glaciology, Environment
US navy braces for Arctic resources fight
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 11 days ago
Credibility The scientific consensus is that future Arctic summers will have less and less sea ice, and that has massive implications for the surrounding nations. The lead scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre, Dr Ted Scambos, says the Artic Ocean...
Tags: navy, sea ice, Anchorage, Global warming, Effects of global warming, Arctic, Polar ice packs, Arctic shrinkage, Climate change, Glaciology, Environment
Russian ship freeing itself from ice in Antarctic
Moscow :: Russia | 12 days ago
Credibility A Russian shipping company says that its icebreaker carrying over 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on an Antarctic cruise has been successfully moving through ice and is just about 100 meters (yards) away from clear water. The Captain Khlebnikov...
Tags: cruise ship, Antarctica, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Russia, Moscow, Ships built in Finland, McMurdo Sound, Icebreaker, Environment, Antarctic Peninsula, Far East Shipping Company, Weddell, Krasin, Glaciology, Sea ice
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