Full Coverage: Antarctica
04/28/2008
The significant shifts driven by climate change in the polar regions present new opportunities and pressures for development. These are challenges which demand holistic, integrated responses (PDF briefing).
Read moreFrom: International Institute for Environment and Development Related: [Canada] [Greenland] [Norway] [Russian Federation] [Energy] [Fisheries] [Climate Change] Image: Offshore oil and gas exploration are likely to increase © Global Witness
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01/25/2008
The first season is complete on a major effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
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10/23/2007
This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is smaller than recent years' due to mild winter temperatures, and is not a sign of ozone recovery, reports the UN. Scientists expect a bigger hole during spring.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) |
10/22/2007
Inuit activists argue that the right to be cold is part of their basic human rights, which is being diminished by global warming caused by pollution emanating from other parts of the world.
Read moreThis is just one of many questions that will be addressed at a series of climate change talks at the British Library. |
02/16/2007
Andien jäätiköt hupenevat ja jäätikön reuna on kutistunut kymmenen vuoden ajan 60 metriä vuodessa. Antarktiksella on mannerjään alta löydetty useita vesionkaloita, jotka supistuvat ja laajenevat kovalla vauhdilla.
Read moreFrom: Maan ystävät Related: [Peru] [Climate Change] |
10/20/2006
from Science Daily:
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The first direct evidence linking human activity to the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.
Image: Larsen ice shelf
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08/28/2006
from RealClimate:
Read moreIs the Antarctic ice sheet getting bigger or smaller? Is it warming or cooling? These are critical questions to which science is beginning to provide answers. Related: [Climate Change] Image: Antarctic ice sheet © British Antarctic Survey
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07/26/2006
from Taipei Times:
Read moreThe Antarctic Treaty could, it seems, be meaningless. "The day they decide, [the energy companies] will go in," says Iranian oil expert at summit on polar research. Meanwhile in Australia, maverick politicians are champing at the bit for Antarctic gold, iron ore, coal and fish. Image: Antarctica: the last pristine continent © British Antarctic Survey
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07/18/2006
The Federal Court of Australia has granted Humane Society International permission to proceed with a lawsuit against the Japanese company that hunts whales in the Australian Whale Sanctuary adjacent to Antarctica.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) Related: [Australia] [Japan] |
03/03/2006
Estimates of sea-level rise as a result of increasing global temperatures could be too low, say scientists.
Read moreRelated: [Climate Change] [Oceans] |
01/12/2006
A 10-day expedition to the Antarctic by Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Howard Dalton designed to investigate the effects of climate change is being followed online via a live blog.
Read moreRelated: [Climate Change] [Science] |
12/06/2005
Levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are the highest they have been in 650,000 years, according to the first in-depth analysis of tiny air bubbles trapped in an ice core from East Antarctica.
Read moreFrom: People & the Planet Related: [Climate Change] |
10/26/2005
It’s just a film about penguins, reports Daniel Nelson, but it's fun, it's amazing, and as well as being a box office hit it could provoke debate about global warming, conservation and a host of other issues.
Read moreRelated: [Animals] [Conservation] Image: Penguin porn – with a powerful point
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12/08/2003
Etelämantereen kilometrien paksuinen lumi- ja jääkerros osaa kertoa monenmoisia tarinoita maailmanmenosta, ja pinnan alla on säilössä tietoa vuosituhansien takaa. Antarktiksen jäätiköistä on apua muun muassa ilmaston lämpenemisen ymmärtämisessä ja ilmansaasteiden tutkimuksessa.
Read moreFrom: Kehitysyhteistyön palvelukeskus Related: [Climate Change] [Pollution] Image: - © British Antarctic Survey
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10/09/2003
Top U.S. scientific agencies announced yesterday that the size of the ozone hole over Antarctica grew sharply this year, but attributed the change to weather conditions. Meanwhile, the ozone layer over the U.S. has decreased by six percent.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) Related: [Environment] [Climate Change] [Science] |
10/24/2002
Australia's government is seeking to have the deep-sea Patagonian toothfish protected under international law to protect it from illegal fishing in Antarctic waters.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) Related: [Australia] [Fisheries] [Biodiversity] [Conservation] |
10/01/2002
Industrial pollutants, including pesticides and insecticides, have contaminated Arctic wildlife and some indigenous peoples, particularly Inuit, according to a report released today by the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.
Read moreFrom: WWF International Related: [Pollution] |
09/17/2002
The Earth's stratospheric ozone layer will remain vulnerable to the effects of chemical emissions for a decade even if countries comply with international agreements to protect it, warned a scientific report released to mark International Ozone Day.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) Related: [Environment] [Climate Change] [Pollution] |
09/17/2002
The Earth's stratospheric ozone layer will remain vulnerable to the effects of chemical emissions for a decade even if countries comply with international agreements to protect it, warned a scientific report released to mark International Ozone Day yesterday.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) Related: [Environment] [Climate Change] [Pollution] |
08/20/2002
YK:n tuore raportti kajoaa ajankohtaiseen aiheeseen puhtaan juomaveden saatavuudesta. Vesi tunnustetaan taloudelliseksi markkinahyödykkeeksi, mutta varoitetaan sen alistamisesta vapaiden markkinoiden pelisäännöille. Hallitusten tulisi varmistaa, että elintärkeä oikeus veteen toteutuu myös yhteiskunnan vähäosaisimpien kohdalla.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Water/Sanitation] [United Nations] Image: Vesiastiaa kantava tyttö © WaterAid
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The first direct evidence linking human activity to the collapse of Antarctic ice shelves.
