900,000-year-old ice retrieved from Antarctic
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Foreign Corresp. European scientists have recovered ice which is 900,000-years-old, the oldest ever found, in the Antarctic during research into the continent's climate.
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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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Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" is soaking up less CO2 than it was expected to.
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An ice sheet in Antarctica that is the world's largest &#151; with enough water to raise global sea levels by 200 feet &#151; is relatively stable and poses no immediate threat, according to new research.
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Science & environment: Giant sea creatures have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica
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A complex network of rivers and reservoirs beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet is mapped by US scientists.
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For the first time, a drumlin - a mound of sediment and rock - has been observed mid-formation, in Antarctica.
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Ancient DNA samples show that southern Greenland was teeming with insect and plant life 450,000 years ago.
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405 years, unmolested by science Scientists have dredged up the oldest known living creature and have called it Ming.â¦
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Scientists try to figure out how far off the next ice age is.
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Beginning about 700,000 years ago, ancient humans were driven off the British Isles seven times by the approach of cold weather, according to new archaeological evidence.
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Mammoth and bison from the last ice age were blasted with material from space, new evidence suggests.
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The ammonia and crystalline ice would be destroyed in about 10 million years,&quot; Jewitt says. &quot;This implies Quaoar gets recoated on that time scale or faster.
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Vienna - The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier was found dead in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities said.
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Ancient bacteria are able to survive nearly half a million years in harsh, frozen conditions, researchers said on Monday in a study that adds to arguments that permafrost environments on Mars could harbor life.
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The next time you step outside, take a good long look around. What you will see is how the Arctic has looked for at least 10,000 years and you may be among the last of the many generations who can say they have seen it that way.
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Scientists find four big lakes under the ice of Antarctica which may help explain how ice flows into the sea.