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2/15/2008
It has been 40 million years since the waters around Antarctica have been warm enough to sustain populations of sharks and most fish, but if a changing climate warms the Southern Ocean, the ecological effects could be serious.
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2/13/2008
The 38th international meeting, to be held by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, will feature a keynote address by James White, of the University of Colorado, Boulder, entitled "IPY: It's not just a year, it's a responsibility."
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2/11/2008
Researcher Peter Doran will lead a team working in icy Lake Mendota to test a NASA-funded robotic probe called ENDURANCE--an acronym for Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctic Explorer.
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2/11/2008
New Arctic sea-floor data released today suggests that the foot of the continental slope off Alaska is more than 100 nautical miles (115 statute miles) farther from the U.S. coast than previously assumed.
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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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1/30/2008
Today, this Committee examines threats and protections for one of the most magnificent creatures in the world: the polar bear.
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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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