Ice pioneer eyes farthest glaciers
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For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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By AJ HOSTETLER A Hampton University-led satellite launched in April to study mysterious icy clouds has spotted them over northern Europe.
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WATER ice may have been found near the Martian equator on the solar systemâs biggest volcano, scientists revealed yesterday. High-resolution pictures taken by the Mars Express spacecraft suggest the presence
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Fresh ice on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau China has trumpeted the discovery of 42 "new" glaciers on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, possibly representing the largest group of such ice flows in the area.â¦
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Sir Edmund Hillary was the mountaineer who, with Tenzing Norgay, his Sherpa guide, was the first to scale the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
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Scientists find many regions on Earth that once had permanent frozen ground are now experiencing a thaw.
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Ice is sliding off the Antarctic continent much faster than it did during the 1990s, several teams of researchers have found. On the Antarctic Peninsula that sticks out from the western side of the continent
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A Hampton University professor is shedding new light on night-shining clouds that might be affected by climate change. Jim Russell is the lead scientist for the NASA-funded AIM satellite, the first to study the wispy "noctilucent" clouds, which only appear above Earth's poles.
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Scientists present one of the most dramatic forecasts for the disappearance of Arctic summer sea-ice.
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Are we really heading for an ice-free Arctic? More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the coldest parts of the Earth &#151; and what that means for the rest of it.
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A probable active glacier is identified on the surface of Mars for the first time.
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To be perched under pollution-free, open skies on the Antarctic Plateau 3.2 kilometers (10,400 feet) above sea level is a professional stargazer's dream come true, even if the cold is deep enough to freeze your blood.
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Some Antarctic glaciers are flowing seaward five times faster than they did just two years ago, increasing concerns about rises in sea levels resulting from the warming of Earth&#39;s polar caps.
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A British explorer has broken the speed record for reaching the North and South Poles and the summit of Mount Everest, The Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Saturday.
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Scientists find four big lakes under the ice of Antarctica which may help explain how ice flows into the sea.
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Science & environment: Profile: From Antarctica to south Kensington - the Science Museum's new director.
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Politics: 1 January 2005, Saturday. Bulgarian alpinists Doichin Vassilev and Lyubomir Ivanov have topped the 1111m Zograph Peak on the Antarctic island of Livingston.