Under All That Ice, Maybe Oil
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The ice-cloaked Arctic Ocean was once apparently a warm, biologically brewing basin, scientists say.
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Bitter cold that our New England winters can be, we long ago adopted a provincial antidote for the numbing of toes and the shortage of breath: metal grinding against ice and hard rubber hitting against wood.
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Arctic ice is melting fast, much faster than anticipated, leading some scientists to believe we may have already passed the tipping point as far as global warming is concerned.
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The energy source of the future may be stores of methane cached beneath the ocean floor and under Arctic permafrost, scientists say.
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A look at how government does business with the oil industry.
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New technology has made it possible to unlock more oil from old fields, allowing companies to go after reserves that are harder to reach.
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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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Ice can be loaded with dirt and, by consequence, fragments of ancient DNA that have been preserved by the cold.
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The buyout for the ice manufacturer is on the rocks.
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For an imaginary point in the midst of an ice-capped sea, the North Pole is a surprisingly hot piece of real estate.
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By George Chamberlin , Daily Transcript Financial Correspondent. Concerns about oil production leading into the winter months sent shivers through the stock market Wednesday.
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An artist's rendering of a bowhead whale diving. (Richard Ellis) Our endless quest for that wondrous liquid fossil fuel, oil, is expanding toward the ends of the Earth as higher prices justify more extreme extraction efforts. Jad Mouawad, my friend and colleague covering the global oil industry, ventured to frigid Barrow, Alaska, recently to write about [...].
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The Gakkel Ridge, encased under the frozen Arctic Ocean, is steep and rocky, and scientists suspect its remote location hosts an array of undiscovered life. Researchers hope newly developed robots will give them their first look at the mysterious ridge located between Greenland and Siberia.
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By Larry Porter, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Feb. 11--LINCOLN -- Ice conditions in the Sand Hills are the best in a dozen years, but it's a mixed blessing for ice fishermen.   Even if fishermen should happen to fall through the ice, they wouldn't be in danger of drowning.
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Scientists present one of the most dramatic forecasts for the disappearance of Arctic summer sea-ice.
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JAKOBSHAVN GLACIER, Greenland -- If Manhattan floods, it may start here, on an ice field that stretches in frozen silence to every horizon.
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Sea spiders, tiny "shrimp," and giant barnacles are among the potential new species discovered where a vast ice shelf used to be.