Polar year starts with worries of rising seas
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More than 60 nations started the biggest scientific investigation of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday amid new evidence that global warming is thawing polar ice and raising sea levels.
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The Arctic is under increasing stress from warming temperatures as shrubs colonize the tundra, changing wildlife habitat and local climate conditions, researchers said Wednesday.
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Warming water temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific last month may indicate the start of a new El Nino.
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The first thorough assessment of a decadeslong Arctic warming trend shows the region is undergoing profound changes, including sharp retreats of glaciers and sea ice, thawing of permafrost
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STOCKHOLM -- People in Scandinavia and Germany, fond of viewing Asia as a winter refuge, faced up to the possibility that a tsunami had turned a tropical paradise into hell for hundreds of friends and loved ones.
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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic but experts say
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During the past two days, many have come with hopes of a lower tide and a chance to see a stranded seal that may have traveled from as far as the Arctic Circle.
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The rate of Arctic ice loss has shot up dramatically in recent years, scientists say, with the region losing 14 percent of its perennial ice cover&#151;an area the size of Texas&#151;between 2004 and 2005.
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Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ At the Golden Gate, the sea is rising.  In the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is shrinking.  These developments, attributable to a warming climate, threaten one of California's most indispensable resources: water.
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A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic, but experts say icebergs and high costs will prevent any transpolar shipping boom.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Winter arrived with a windy fury Monday in Atlantic Canada, leaving residents to dig out from a thick blanket of wet snow that clogged roads, disrupted holiday travel and suspended drilling at an offshore rig.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums (AMMPA) is encouraging the U.S. government and the public to act now to protect polar bears from the life-threatening effects of melting sea ice in the arctic. In a letter to the U.S.
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Scientists have worries about the Arctic warming as they have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting too rapidly .
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Global warming (news - web sites) is melting the Arctic ice faster than expected, and the world&#39;s oceans could rise by about a meter (3 feet
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too
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Climate scientists agree there have  been a lot of strong hurricanes lately. They agree that warmer  seas have given these storms some extra punch. But they  disagree how much global warming is to blame.