WASHINGTON – The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists said Friday.
"The long-term prognosis is not very optimistic," atmospheric scientist Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University said at a briefing.
Last summer sea ice in the North shrank to a record low, a change many attribute [...]

OTTAWA – Canada is preparing to launch the first space mission ever to search for asteroids between Earth and the sun – the type of asteroid most likely to slam into our planet.
Fittingly for this country, the Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite is not a Hubble-sized monster. It’s a 60-kilogram microsatellite, costing a mere $10 [...]

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation. This new pattern explains, for the first time, changes in the water that are important in helping commercial fishermen understand fluctuations in the fish stock.
They’re also finding that as the temperature of the Earth is warming, [...]

A giant and unusual underwater volcano lies just offshore of Iceland on the Reykjanes Ridge, volcanologists have announced.
The Reykjanes formation is a section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, which bisects the Atlantic Ocean where the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates are pulling apart.
As magma wells up from the rift between the plates, it cools to [...]

A powerful volcano erupted under the ice sheet of West Antarctica around 2,000 years ago and it might still be active today, a finding that prompts questions about ice loss from the white continent, British scientists report on Sunday.
The explosive event — rated "severe" to "cataclysmic" on an international scale of volcanic force — [...]

Residents insist Greenland’s freezing temperatures don’t mean global warming has been called off. While the rest of Europe is debating the prospects of global warming during an unseasonably mild winter, a brutal cold snap is raging across the semi-autonomous nation of Greenland.
On Disko Bay in western Greenland, where a number of prominent world leaders have [...]

Global warming may not be the only thing melting Greenland. Scientists have found at least one natural magma hotspot under the Arctic island that could be pitching in.
In recent years, Greenland’s ice has been melting more and flowing faster into the sea—a record amount of ice melted from the frozen mass this summer, according to [...]