Antarctic under threat as oil-hunger grows: expert
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Declining oil reserves and soaring prices could see desperate nations overturning a ban on exploration in the last untouched frontier -- Antarctica, an oil expert told a scientific conference.
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The glaciers in West Antarctica have substantially increased their rate of shrinkage compared with the 1990s. US-Chilean teams report to the journal Science that the glaciers are losing 60% more ice into the
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NATO should be more involved in protecting its members' energy resources, the alliance's top diplomat said Thursday amid concerns that fuel supplies face threats ranging from terrorism to supply cuts by disgruntled exporters.
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New research is raising concerns that global warming may be triggering a self-perpetuating climate time bomb trapped in once-frozen permafrost.
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By ESPINER, Colin; STEWARD, Ian  Conservation Minister Chris Carter is warning of an environmental disaster if a Japanese whaling ship foundering off the Antarctic coast spills oil into the Ross Sea.
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The locations of the world's big energy reserves could bite us in the years to come.
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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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The world economy will face higher prices than in the past decade as more oil comes from &quot;politically unstable&quot; countries, such as Saudi Arabia and Russia, and production costs rise, the International Energy Agency warned on Tuesday.
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BUENOS AIRES The Inuit, 155,000 seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their
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The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize could go to a climate campaigner such as ex-U.S. Vice-President Al Gore or Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, reinforcing a view that global warming is a threat to world security, experts say.
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Australia on Wednesday urged Japanese whalers and environmental activists heading for a showdown in the Southern Ocean to show restraint, warning deaths could occur if anything went wrong.
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Some of Antarctica&#39;s glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists have reported.
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A thaw of the Arctic icecap is accelerating because of global warming but nations in the region including the United States are deadlocked about how to stop it.
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An Antarctic honeymoon, an iceberg, and questions about climate change.
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A scientific scramble is under way to clarify whether the erosion of the worldâs most vulnerable ice sheets can continue to accelerate.
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One of the scientists who found the Antarctic ozone hole urges more action on ozone-attacking chemicals.
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Australian scientists predicted four months ago that climate patterns could trigger mass strandings of marine mammals around the Southern Ocean.