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6/26/2008
Learn more about the animals in the Arctic Ocean food chain from this interactive illustration produced by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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6/26/2008
In March 2008, an NSF-funded research team launched into the Bering Sea to learn more about how its complex ecosystem works and how it may be affected by impending climate change.
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6/11/2008
New research that integrates seismic recordings with GPS measurements indicates that a 7,000-square-mile region of an Antarctic ice stream moves more than two feet twice every day in an earthquake-like pattern equivalent to a Magnitude 7 temblor.
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6/11/2008
Scientists aboard the research vessel Knorr this Spring measured chemical pollutants transported to the Arctic to understand how they may be sparking new chemical reactions and contributing to warming.
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6/11/2008
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods--any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages--in Antarctica dating from about 245 million years ago.
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6/10/2008
World-renowned director Werner Herzog traveled to Antarctica with National Science Foundation (NSF) support to produce a film about daily life on the southernmost continent. The film opened in June, 2008.
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5/16/2008
Dr. Greg McFarquhar, co-lead scientist for DOE's Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol campaign, makes time for science education in the field.
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5/15/2008
The Department of the Interior announced May 14 that it is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list the bear as a threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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5/14/2008
The U.S. Department of Energy's Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment is featured on the cover of the latest report from the U.S. Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee.
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4/3/2008
Helen Amanda Fricker, an NSF-funded glaciologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., explains why she "loves" math-- and why she couldn't work without it--in this video produced by the San Diego County Office of Education.
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