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Antarctica

A new review analyzing three decades of research on the historic effects of melting polar ice sheets found that global sea levels have risen at…
Michael B. Gerrard, associate faculty chair at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, is the Andrew Sabin professor of professional practice and director of the Sabin Center for…
In an acknowledgement of the severity of the climate crisis, officials from the some of the world's leading economic powers on Monday issued a joint…
As always, Gary gives us new information on health and healing. The latest on vaccines - new information on toxicology. We thought the Bush administration…
Antarctic glaciers once thought relatively stable are starting to melt. Evidence from a five-year satellite study of the frozen rivers on the southern Antarctic Peninsula…
A group of scientists, led by a team from the University of Bristol, UK has observed a sudden increase of ice loss in a previously…
Study after study shows that Antarctica isn't in great shape. Its ice shelves are disappearing and its ice sheets are collapsing, hastening swiftly rising sea levels. Sounds terrible. But…
During the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the…
If you want to know what we have to do to avoid catastrophic climate change, 17 of the world’s leading climate scientists have worked out…
“Just plain immoral.” That’s how Secretary of State John Kerry recently described those who stand idly by while the world burns—or, worse, obstruct those trying…
Peru’s Quelccaya Ice Cap (alt. 17,950 ft.), the world’s largest tropical ice cap, will likely lose another 400-600 feet of ice before the final presidential…
Rapid melting of Antarctic ice could push sea levels up 10 feet worldwide within two centuries, "recurving" heavily populated coastlines and essentially reshaping the world,…