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Melting The Snowball Earth
November 28, 2006 — Scientists believe that during the Neoproterozoic era 750 million years ago, a severe ice age occurred that almost completely froze Earth's oceans. The factors that initiated this "Snowball Earth" ... > full story -
Snow Data Helps Maintain Nation's Largest, Oldest Bison Herd
November 2, 2006 — NASA satellite data and computer modeling and US Department of Agriculture information are helping track the remnants of the once mighty bison herd in Yellowstone National Park as they migrate with ... > full story -
Radar Opens New Window Into The Ice For Antarctic Scientists
October 16, 2006 — Scientists are getting their first glimpse into the inner secrets of an ice shelf, thanks to the innovative application of a new radar technique developed by British Antarctic Survey (BAS). Getting a ... > full story -
Bacteria For Better Ice Cream And Artificial Snow No Longer Depends On Trek To Poles
September 30, 2006 — The search for a type of bacteria that creates better ice cream and artificial snow has suddenly become a lot easier, thanks to a discovery by Queen's University biologist Virginia ... > full story -
Scientists Use An 'Ice Lolly' To Find Polar Bacteria In Their Own Backyard
September 29, 2006 — To study the bacteria which survive in extreme cold, scientists no longer have to go to extreme environments, such as Antarctic lakes and glaciers. Bacteria previously isolated from polar climates, ... > full story -
Mountain Climate Change Trends Could Predict Water Resources
August 24, 2006 — New research into climate change in the Western Himalaya and the surrounding Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains could explain why many glaciers there are growing and not melting. The findings suggest ... > full story -
Overall Antarctic Snowfall Hasn't Changed In 50 Years
August 10, 2006 — For an animated graphic of snowfall variability across Antarctica and over time and b-roll of the U.S. ITASE traverse on Betacam SP, contact Dena Headlee. The most precise record of Antarctic ... > full story -
Ice Sheets Drive Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels, Inverting Previous Ice-Age Theory
July 25, 2006 — New study provides a novel explanation for the rhythms of the ice ages, inverting established theory. New hypothesis may explain why the strongest cycles of ice response are not in correspondence ... > full story -
New Century Of Thirst For World's Mountains
May 19, 2006 — By the century's end, the Andes in South America will have less than half their current winter snowpack, mountain ranges in Europe and the US West will have lost nearly half of their snow-bound ... > full story -
Fabled Equatorial African Icecaps To Disappear
May 15, 2006 — Fabled equatorial icecaps will disappear within two decades, because of global warming, a study British and Ugandan scientists has found. An increase in air temperature over the last four decades has ... > full story
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