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Not-So-Permanent Permafrost: 850 Billion Tons of Carbon Stored in Frozen Arctic Ground Could Be Released
October 25, 2012 — As much as 44 billion tons of nitrogen and 850 billion tons of carbon stored in Arctic permafrost, or frozen ground, could be released into the environment as the region begins to thaw over the next ... > full story -
Opposite Behaviors? Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks, Antarctic Grows
October 23, 2012 — The steady and dramatic decline in the sea ice cover of the Arctic Ocean over the last three decades has become a focus of media and public attention. At the opposite end of Earth, however, something ... > full story -
Biologists Record Increasing Amounts of Plastic Litter in the Arctic Deep Sea
October 23, 2012 — The sea bed in the Arctic deep sea is increasingly strewn with litter and plastic waste, according to ... > full story -
Bowhead Whales: Ancient DNA Sheds Light on Arctic Whale Mysteries
October 19, 2012 — Scientists have published the first range-wide genetic analysis of the bowhead whale using hundreds of samples from both modern populations and archaeological sites used by indigenous Arctic hunters ... > full story -
NASA'S Operation Icebridge Resumes Flights Over Antarctica
October 12, 2012 — Scientists and flight crew members with Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to study Earth's changing polar ice, are beginning another campaign over Antarctica. Now in its fourth year, ... > full story -
Arctic and Southern Oceans Appear to Determine the Composition of Microbial Populations
October 11, 2012 — Differing contributions of freshwater from glaciers and streams to the Arctic and Southern oceans appear to be responsible for the fact that the majority of microbial communities that thrive near the ... > full storyMore: -
Cold Wind Makes Norwegian Sea Warmer
October 11, 2012 — The Gulf Stream and the warm waters it brings are one reason the climate is milder along the Norwegian coastline than other places so far north. Researchers now know that the Gulf Stream is not only ... > full story -
Large Water Reservoirs at the Dawn of Stellar Birth
October 9, 2012 — The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapor to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing ... > full story -
Climate Change Beliefs: Political Views Trump Facts for Some
October 4, 2012 — For some people, scientific facts help determine what they believe about an issue. But for others, political views trump scientific facts and determine what information they will accept as true. ... > full story -
Arctic Sea Ice Shatters Previous Low Records; Antarctic Sea Ice Edges to Record High
October 3, 2012 — This September, sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean fell to the lowest extent in the satellite record, which began in 1979. Satellite data showed that the sea ice cover reached its lowest extent on ... > full storyMore:
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