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Here's Why Polar Bears' Summer Just Got A Bit Worse

The area of frozen ocean that caps the North Pole was smaller this past month than during any January on record.
Measurements released last week by the National Snow ...

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Lego Unveils First Ever Minifigure In Wheelchair

Images taken at the Nuremberg toy fair by fan group Promobricks show a wheelchair-using Lego figurine, complete with helper dog, following #ToyLikeMe equality campaign The ...

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Sustainable Development

Humans Were Living In The Arctic 15,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

Around 26,000 years ago, the ice sheets comprising the Earth?s arctic regions reached their maximum extension, reaching as far south as Germany. This period is appropriatel...

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Environment

Global Warming Could Delay The Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

In a study published this Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research make clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions...

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Sustainable Development

A Scorecard For Companies With A Conscience

Eleven years ago, the Vermont-based ice cream-maker Ben and Jerry?s found itself in a position other companies might have found enviable. Several firms were bidding to buy ...

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Environment

It May Be 70 Degrees Fahrenheit Above Average This Week In The North Pole

As winter storms continue to wreak havoc in much of the United States, a system is building in the North Atlantic that some weather watchers say could push temperatures in ...

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Freak Heatwave Pushes North Pole 20 Degrees Celsius Above Winter Norm

MONTREAL: Temperatures at the North Pole rose above freezing point on Wednesday, 20 degrees Celsius above the mid-winter norm and the latest abnormality in a season of extr...

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Environment

Freak Heatwave Pushes North Pole 20 Degrees Celsius Above Winter Norm

MONTREAL: Temperatures at the North Pole rose above freezing point on Wednesday, 20 degrees Celsius above the mid-winter norm and the latest abnormality in a season of extr...

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Environment

Britain Needs to Move Its Antarctic Base Because the Ice Shelf Is Cracking

You can?t stop nature, so there?s only one thing for it: the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is setting up to relocate Halley VI, the latest version of the Halley Research S...

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Environment

Even Glaciers Near The North Pole Are Melting

Jeremie Mouginot and his team reconstructed the shape and movements of the glacier to track how it has changed in geometry due to melting from below caused by warm water in...

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