Belgium building zero-emission Antarctic station
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Belgium is building the first ever zero-emission polar station in the Antarctic, powered by solar panels and wind turbines and designed to have minimal impact on the climate change its scientists are studying.
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Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack. Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
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The first tests on hi-tech equipment that will be used to provide data on the current state of Arctic ice are successful.
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The European Space Agency(ESA) says it has found concentrations of water vapour and the gas methane in the same places on Mars, which strengthen speculation that the Red Planet could be a haven for microbial life.
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(CBS/AP) Space station commander Gennady Padalka and flight engineer Michael Fincke completed a five-hour 21-minute spacewalk, successfully installing a new coolant system component and three antennas that an unmanned European cargo craft will use for
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By Stephen Leahy* - Tierramrica  TORONTO, Sep. 20, 2006 (IPS/GIN) -- Another giant ozone hole has opened up over the Antarctic, while evidence mounts that 20 years of international efforts have finally helped the atmosphere to start to heal itself.
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By Barry, Patrick Finding a single heavy antimatter nucleus could revolutionize cosmology When summer comes to Antarctica this December, a group of physicists there will launch an enormous balloon carrying a scientific instrument through Earth's atmosphere to the edge of space.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Two astronauts left the International Space Station on Sunday to finish hooking up a new cooling system that will pave the way for installation of European and Japanese modules beginning this year.
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The European Space Agency says its Jules Verne spacecraft has completed 21 days of simulated space vacuum, sub-zero temperatures and solar radiation.
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A group of Japanese researchers has found that carbon dioxide levels over the Antarctica rose by over 2.6 percent from six years ago &#151; the first such detection of an increase in a "greenhouse" gas above the southern continent, group members said Tuesday.
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An ESA-designed house that uses technology designed for space could become the basis of the new German Antarctic station, Neumayer-III. The new station has to meet stringent laws set up to protect the Antarctic environment, which is where the use of space technology comes in.
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The calm air above part of the Antarctic makes it the best place on Earth for astronomy, according to the scientists who propose building a telescope in the icy wilderness.
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MOSCOWâAfter years of delay, the Canadian government will soon have to come up with a concrete plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions following yesterday&#39;s approval of the Kyoto Protocol by Russia&#39;s lower house of parliament.
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Tests by a team from the University of New South Wales, reported in the journal âNatureâ this week [16 September], show that the âDome Câ site in the Australian Antarctic Territory is by far the best place ever tested on Earth for doing infrared
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By BETH GORHAM  WASHINGTON (CP) - Global warming has become such a daily problem for Arctic Inuit that they need air conditioners part of the year but rarely have them, Canadian activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier told an international rights group Thursday.
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Polar explorer Will Steger will lead a team across Canada's Baffin Island to document the ways global warming is impacting humans in the far north.
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A device that turns heat to sound and sound to electricity could power spacecraft.