Polar Ice
The polar ice caps cover the North and South Poles and their surrounding territory, including the entire continent of Antarctica in the south, the Arctic Ocean, the northern part of Greenlan...
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The polar ice world is full of life and natural beauty. When snow is old and cold enough, it turns into ice. Eventually, large chunks of ice depart from the continent to form icebergs. The icebergs f...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Arctic ice at the North
Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest
sign that climate change has accelerated in recent years,
climate scientists said W...
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Ilulissat, Greenland (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel
gained a first-hand impression of the effects of global warming on
the polar ice cap during a helicopter flight ...
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Singapore is tapping Dutch technology to learn how to cope with
a possible rise in sea levels due to global warming, a local
newspaper reported Monday.
Singapore elder statesman Lee Kuan Y...
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Oslo (dpa) - Norway marked the 20th anniversary Monday of the
groundbreaking Brundtland report that paved the way for the 1992 UN
Environment Conference against the backdrop...
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Oslo (dpa) - Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store Monday
welcomed his German counterpart Frank Walter Steinmeier for talks on
energy, global warming and the strategic...
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Woody Harrelson called for more anti-oil activism at a media and technology conference Thursday, though he declined to say how far he was willing to go personally as a protester."In spite of the fa...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is airing his second television ad in New Hampshire this week, appealing to the state's environmental sensitivity with a call for reduced dependency o...
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Both supporters and opponents of congestion pricing doubt that Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be able to reach anything like a consensus among elected officials by the time the State Legislature is s...
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The White House is pushing the Senate to ratify a long-spurned high seas treaty that has gained new relevance with the melting of the polar ice cap and anticipated competition for the oil that lies...
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It may be hard to believe, with brush fires raging in Los Angeles and record heat cutting a red swath across U.S. weather maps, but in the world of geopolitics, summer 2007 is experiencing a cold s...
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