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Newly Discovered Emperor Penguin Colony Receives First Human Visitors
January 9, 2013 — Three team members from Belgium's Princess Elisabeth Antarctica polar research station are the first humans to have ever visited and photographed a newly-discovered 9,000-strong colony of emperor ... > full story -
Jurassic Ecosystems Were Similar to Modern: Animals Flourish Among Lush Plants
January 8, 2013 — In modern ecosystems, animals flourish amid lush vegetation. That was true 150 million years ago too, says a new study by paleontologists. They applied ecological principles to geochemical data from ... > full story -
Icing on a Lake: Blocks of Hydrocarbon Ice Might Decorate Surface of Lakes and Seas on Saturn's Moon Titan
January 8, 2013 — It's not exactly icing on a cake, but it could be icing on a lake. A new paper by scientists on NASA's Cassini mission finds that blocks of hydrocarbon ice might decorate the surface of existing ... > full story -
Who Deforested Central Africa: Humans or Climate?
January 7, 2013 — It is a much debated question: why did Central African forests become partially fragmented between 2,500 and 2,000 years ago, leaving room for more open forest landscapes and savannah? Recently, ... > full story -
Future Sea Level Rise from Melting Ice Sheets May Be Substantially Greater Than IPCC Estimates
January 6, 2013 — Future sea level rise due to the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could be substantially larger than estimated in Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, ... > full story -
Coral Records Suggest El Nino Activity Rises Above Background
January 3, 2013 — By examining a set of fossil corals that are as much as 7,000 years old, scientists have dramatically expanded the amount of information available on the El Nino-Southern Oscillation, a Pacific Ocean ... > full story -
Natural Relationship Between Carbon Dioxide Concentrations and Sea Level Documented
January 2, 2013 — By comparing reconstructions of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and sea level over the past 40 million years, researchers have found that greenhouse gas concentrations similar to the ... > full story -
Dance of Water Molecules Turns Fire-Colored Beetles Into Antifreeze Artists
January 2, 2013 — Certain plants and animals protect themselves against temperatures below freezing with antifreeze proteins. How the larva of the beetle Dendroides canadensis manages to withstand temperatures down to ... > full story -
NOAA Lists Ringed and Bearded Ice Seal Populations Under the Endangered Species Act
December 30, 2012 — NOAA Fisheries has announced its final listing decision for four subspecies of ringed seals and two distinct population segments (DPSs) of bearded seals under the Endangered Species Act. ... > full story -
Study Shows Rapid Warming on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
December 23, 2012 — In a discovery that raises further concerns about the future contribution of Antarctica to sea level rise, a new study finds that the western part of the ice sheet is experiencing nearly twice as ... > full story
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