A possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $28 trillion worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry.
"The Earth is just too small," sighed South African adventurer Mike Horn, one of the few people on the planet who can get away with saying such a statement.
NASA plans to launch next week the first of 17 planned flights to study changes in Antarctic ice and collect data that may help scientists better predict the consequences of those changes, officials said Thursday.
Question: If you had $10,000 to invest for short-term growth, what would you invest it in? My wife and I feel that our everyday savings are sitting stagnant. Our hope is that there is a wise financial adventure to be had by allocating a portion of this account to something new. Any suggestions? --Stuart, Trussville, Alabama
Nowhere is the difference between men and women so glaring as when it comes down to the demise of a relationship. Specifically, the unexpected, unwanted, one-sided break-up otherwise known as the dumping.
Nearly a decade after she was rescued from a remote Antarctic research station after diagnosing herself with breast cancer, Dr. Jerri Nielsen died early Tuesday, her brother said. She was 57.
Call it a case of high tech meeting low tech, really the lowest of tech.
Elephant seals equipped with electronic tags and robotic mini submarines using sonar were just two projects during the International Polar Year (IPY) that aimed to investigate the effects of global warming in polar regions.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for tighter controls over tourism and other forms of pollution in Antarctica Monday, arguing for greater global cooperation to help preserve the continent's environmental and scientific research value.
A large ice shelf is "imminently" close to breaking away from part of the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists said Friday.
A possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $28 trillion worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry.
"The Earth is just too small," sighed South African adventurer Mike Horn, one of the few people on the planet who can get away with saying such a statement.
NASA plans to launch next week the first of 17 planned flights to study changes in Antarctic ice and collect data that may help scientists better predict the consequences of those changes, officials said Thursday.
Question: If you had $10,000 to invest for short-term growth, what would you invest it in? My wife and I feel that our everyday savings are sitting stagnant. Our hope is that there is a wise financial adventure to be had by allocating a portion of this account to something new. Any suggestions? --Stuart, Trussville, Alabama
Nowhere is the difference between men and women so glaring as when it comes down to the demise of a relationship. Specifically, the unexpected, unwanted, one-sided break-up otherwise known as the dumping.
Nearly a decade after she was rescued from a remote Antarctic research station after diagnosing herself with breast cancer, Dr. Jerri Nielsen died early Tuesday, her brother said. She was 57.
Call it a case of high tech meeting low tech, really the lowest of tech.
Elephant seals equipped with electronic tags and robotic mini submarines using sonar were just two projects during the International Polar Year (IPY) that aimed to investigate the effects of global warming in polar regions.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for tighter controls over tourism and other forms of pollution in Antarctica Monday, arguing for greater global cooperation to help preserve the continent's environmental and scientific research value.
A large ice shelf is "imminently" close to breaking away from part of the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists said Friday.
Robert Swan's life reads like a boy's own adventure tale with a modern eco-twist.
As we carry our kayaks down to the rocky shore, the morning mist thickens into a steady drizzle. Dawn breaks in the distance, revealing a cloud-roiled horizon. The surrounding mountains disappear into the low-hanging overcast, making their barren flanks seem even more ominous. I shiver as I slip into the kayak, fasten my spray skirt and follow my companions out over the leaden waters of Loch Nan Ceal toward the tombstone peak of An Sgurr, 10 miles ahead. Leading the flotilla is our guide, a hardy Scandinavian named Olaf Malver.
Between 1.5 trillion and 2 trillion tons of ice in Greenland, Antarctica and Alaska have melted at an accelerating rate since 2003, according to NASA scientists, in the latest signs of what they say is global warming.
The owners of a cruise ship that ran aground in Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, are hoping high tide will dislodge the ship Wednesday, a company statement said.
Antarctica is warming in line with the rest of the world, according to a new study on climate change in Antarctica.
Scientists think they have uncovered conclusive proof that human activity is responsible for rising temperatures in both polar regions.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Adventurer and TV show host Bear Grylls injured his shoulder in Antarctica during an expedition to raise money for an international charity, the Discovery Channel said Sunday.
All 122 people aboard a cruise ship stranded off Antarctica have been evacuated and are "in perfect health," the Chilean navy said Friday.
A cruise ship carrying 122 people was stranded Thursday on the coast of Antarctica after striking ice, officials said.
Like many people, I have a "bucket list." It's something along the lines of the "top-10-things-to-see-or-do-before-you-die" lists published on travel Web sites.
An international team of researchers plans to head to Antarctica later this year to begin a four-year project exploring some of the last uncharted regions on Earth.
The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2008 is larger in both size and ozone loss than last year, but not as large as in 2006, the European Space Agency said Tuesday.
For a few suspenseful minutes on Aug. 1, complete darkness will engulf the midday sun in northern Canada, Russia, Mongolia and China. It's the next complete solar eclipse, and there's one small business owner who really, really wants to take you there.
A new fossil discovery provides evidence that the Antarctic continent was once much warmer than today and may have been able to sustain life.
More than 400 dead penguins, most of them young, have been washing up on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches
Hundreds of baby penguins swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and Patagonia are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin experts said Friday
The dwindling march of the penguins is signaling that the world's oceans are in trouble, scientists now say
Robotic rovers have patrolled deep space and the deepest seas, but scientists are still struggling to create drones that can overcome the multiple challenges of exploring Antarctica
Marine scientists surveying a large undersea mountain chain were amazed to find millions of tiny starfish swirling their arms to capture food in the undersea current
Climatology was once a small and often overlooked branch of science. But important discoveries made as early as the 19th century have contributed to what is the most important field of scientific study in the world today. Listed below are some key dates in climate change history.
From krill to king crabs, the collapse of a 160-square-mile portion of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica could mean many changes for wildlife at the bottom of the world.
Some 220 square miles (570 square kilometers) of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is "hanging by a thread," the British Antarctic Survey has said, blaming global warming.
Japanese whalers and anti-whaling activists clashed in the waters near Antarctica on Friday, with each side offering conflicting accounts of the confrontation -- the second between the two boats in a week.
A new study finds that rising temperatures are in danger of wiping out the king penguins of Antarctica
Japan has resumed whaling in the waters near Antarctica -- only days after groups hoping to stop it left the area, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told CNN on Friday.
Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died after suffering a heart attack.
Two new studies throw some doubt into the conventional wisdom of what the Earth was like when dinosaurs roamed it
The next report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change should deal with the "frightening" possibility that both Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets start melting at the same time, the chief U.N. climate scientist said Tuesday
More than 150 passengers and crew aboard a sinking ship in the Antarctic, which is believed to have collided with an iceberg, have been rescued to safety, officials said.
You don't need a rocket to send scientific instruments into space. A really big balloon works just as well, according to an international research team that plans to take a closer-than-ever look at the sun.
As nations jockey for the North Pole, London starts a race for the South, just in case there are minerals to exploit
Picture this: A giant penguin with a long, peculiar beak, lounging in the warm sun.
It took me a while, but I finally got around to seeing Al Gore's global warming movie, "An Inconvenient Truth". (Clearly I don't get out enough. The last first-run movie I saw was "Happy Feet" with my kids.)
In a summer of sequels, the third go-round for Johnny Depp and his not-so-merry miscreants leaves Richard Schickel with a sinking feeling
Iceberg Alley is an aptly named narrow channel on the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Antarctica is the coldest, driest and windiest place in the world but during the high summer, it can feel decidedly mild.
"I never think of the future" Albert Einstein once said, "It comes soon enough". But at the beginning of the 21st Century even the great scientist might have been taken aback by the pace of scientific and engineering advances of recent times.
Its full name is the Digital Versatile Disc, and it certainly lives up to the billing.
They're cute, furry and flightless, but they've been accused of being behind "far left propaganda," and knocking the world's deadliest spy his box office perch. Here we explain the penguin phenomenon taking the world by storm.
About 100 icebergs from Antarctica are floating towards New Zealand. The naturally occurring -- but rare -- phenomena pose a major threat to international shipping.
Nothing says hot like an Arctic bidding war.
David Kuhnau was 75 miles into a 100-mile leg of a race in Antarctica when the blizzard struck. His lungs were already burning, his feet were covered with open blisters inside his trail shoes, and ...
No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth.
Some people love a cruise. Some people would rather get a root canal. If you're in the latter group, it may be because the word cruise brings to mind images of thousands of people lining up for the...
Dr. Heather Ross, medical director of the cardiac transplant program at Toronto General Hospital, doesn't just recommend rehab, she lives it with her patients.
You'll be amazed by their journey. You'll marvel at their fortitude. But more than any of that, you'll be struck by a simple thought while watching this year's breakout hit documentary: Thank God I am not a penguin.
When it comes to corporate hospitality, companies are constantly trying to outmaneuver each other.
An innovative Antarctic exploration vehicle has been unveiled by London's Royal College of Art and the British Antarctic Survey.
Leave it to four zoo animals to do justice to one of the most formulaic of movie genres, the fish-out-of-water story -- and do it with an energy that would make Warner Bros. animators like Tex Avery proud.
Scientists have proposed a scheme to introduce a series of planetary parks on Mars that would see areas of the Red Planet transformed into conservation zones.
A new research station at the bottom of the world may give future Antarctica researchers some special treats like living above ground and looking out a window.
References to eco-tours are popping up in magazines, guidebooks and ads for everything from rainforest tours in Bangladesh to birding trips through Oaxaca, Mexico.
Identification bands that scientists use to track and study penguins may hurt their chances of reproducing, according to new research.
Lynne Cox, author of "Swimming to Antarctica," is an endurance and cold water swimmer. She has broken numerous records and was the first person to swim around the Cape of Good Hope, off the southern tip of Africa. Doctors have been studying Cox to determine how and why she's able to swim in frigid temperatures.
To the average person, swimming a mile in the frigid waters off Antarctica, diving more than 500 feet on a single breath, or climbing the world's highest mountains without the help of extra oxygen would be deadly.
America Online (a unit of my sainted employer, AOL Time Warner) is looking for a new competitive knockout in the broadband world. So are all its major competitors, like Microsoft and Yahoo. E-mail ...
The day I sat down with Paul Hawken for an expansive four-hour conversation in his spare, light-filled office in Sausalito, Calif., was the same day the world learned that an ice shelf the size of ...
THE RALPH BUNCHE public school sits squarely in Harlem, surrounded by the splintered glass and concrete trappings of inner-city life. Nearby avenues echo with police sirens, blaring music, and angr...
Scientists expect an ozone hole to open up in the Northern Hemisphere. The big one over Antarctica, discovered in 1985, is still growing. Both threaten life forms from plankton to man in parts of S...
Welcome to a year of fabulous travel bargains. Business has been lackluster throughout 1991, with occupancy rates at U.S. resorts now hovering at 66%, down from 69% in 1990, and with business trave...
At one of Tokyo's three Seibu department stores, you can buy Clinique cosmetics on the first floor and scuba-diving lessons in the basement. Says store planning manager Tokio Arai: ''Now a customer...
Bored with Amazon rain forests, Indonesian temples, and the Great Barrier Reef? Jaded travelers, take heart: Antarctica awaits. It's among the most chic destinations because getting there is expens...
PROFILE/ COVER STORY IACOCCA 38 Here' s what he didn' t say in his two best- sellers. The bare- knuckle Chrysler chief executive talks with characteristic candor about some good times shared with H...
than Antarctica ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The 21st meeting of the Organization of African Unity ended . . . a day earlier than planned. The African leaders spent Friday night reviewing draft resolut...
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