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A glacier the size of New York or Berlin has recently split off in the Antarctic continent creating a split 800-feet wide. The glacial split in Pine Island runs for almost 20 miles (32km), is 60m (200ft) deep and is growing every day.
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Researchers have been watching the environment change in Greenland for some time. Now, however, they've noted the largest ice sheet in 50 years is breaking off from the island and moving south where it could interfere with shipping.
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The Obama Administration is seeking mandatory Antarctic touring limits, in a move to protect the fragile Antarctic environment.
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A five-nation scientific team has published new evidence that even a slight rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide affects the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS).
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A comprehensive new study authored by University at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet.
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The 2007 melting rate of the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 per cent, making it the largest ever decrease since satellite measurements began in 1979.
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Scientists took hundreds of DNA samples from the ice 2km deep at the base of the southern Greenland ice sheet. They found DNA from species such as alder, pine, spruce and yew trees. They also found DNA from beetles, butterflies, flies and spiders.
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DNA evidence suggests some Scandinavian trees survived the last Ice Age, contradicting the widely held notion that vegetation was wiped out by a great ice sheet.
Training begins for a pioneering UK project to search for life in a lake hidden beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet.
 In what may have been an unprecedented happening, the matchups for the Stanley Cup, Calder Cup and Memorial Cup were all locked in on the same night as a result of Friday's ice sheet results.
 The ice road to Attawapiskat
The city of Jerusalem hosts its first ever exhibition of ice sculptures
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