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2/5/2008
NASA's Richard Hoover is leading a team of explorers and scientists to Antarctica. The team will search for hardy microorganisms that flourish in hostile conditions.
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2/4/2008
A new study, primarily funded by NSF, shows that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century.
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1/26/2008
New, NSF-funded research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events.
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1/25/2008
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS) project has completed the first season of an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the past 100,000 years.
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1/24/2008
NSF-funded researchers have closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.
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1/23/2008
Ice loss in Antarctica increased by 75 percent in the last 10 years, due to a speed-up in the flow of its glaciers. The continent's melt rate is now nearly as great as that observed in Greenland.
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1/21/2008
The signing of a historic globe kicked off the University of Delaware's “William S. Carlson International Polar Year Events,” a series of public lectures, receptions, research seminars, art exhibits, and film showings.
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1/17/2008
Get the cold, hard facts about setting up an inflatable lunar habitat in Antarctica straight from the frozen fingers of Larry Toups, habitat lead for NASA's Constellation Program Lunar Surface Systems Office.
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1/16/2008
A new study indicates meltwater periodically overwhelms the interior drainpipes of Alaska's Kennicott Glacier, causing it to lurch forward, similar to processes that may help explain the acceleration of glaciers observed recently in Greenland.
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1/14/2008
The Ulysses spacecraft made a rare flyby of the sun's north pole on Jan. 14, 2008. Ulysses is the only spacecraft able to sample winds at the sun's poles, which are difficult to study from Earth.
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