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Education · Family · Science · Society · Travel · Arctic · Art · Contemporary artists · Mark Coreth · Polar bears · World Environment Day
Bear melts for World Environment Day
Tuesday, 31 May 2011A touchable, life-sized statue of a hunting polar bear will arrive at Customs House Square in Sydney later this week. Coinciding with World Environment Day, this is the sixth stop on the Ice Bear’s global tour, which highlights the urgent threat of climate change to Arctic life.
Arctic autumn temperature hits record high
Monday, 20 October 2008Autumn temperatures in the Arctic region are a record 5 C higher than normal due the melting of the ice cap, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report said on Friday.
Glacial melting can be sudden, as past evidence shows
Monday, 1 September 2008Scientists say they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet - a prospect, doomsayers have warned, that would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. The researchers found that the great Laurentide icesheet, which smothered much of North America during the last Ice Age, melted far swifter than realised, dumping billions of tonnes of water into the ocean.
