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7/13/2007
The Alaska Water Resource Vulnerability Index, or AWRVI (pronounced R-VEE)created by University of Alaska researchers may help communities monitor and protect their water resources.
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7/12/2007
A 20-year study argues that recent changes in sea ice in northern Alaska likely explains a decrease in maternal polar bear denning on sea ice and an increase of denning on land
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7/10/2007
Protection under the Endangered Species Act may be warranted for 10 species of penguins found in Antarctica and the southern hemisphere, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced in july of 2007.
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7/9/2007
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander will claw down into the icy soil of the Red Planet's northern plains, looking beneath a frigid arctic landscape for conditions favorable to past or present life.
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7/6/2007
The National Science Foundation recently awarded funds to NSIDC to help manage scientific data gathered during IPY.
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7/5/2007
USGS scientists recently completed a quantitative analysis, published in the July 2007 issue of Geology, documenting accelerated land loss along a section of Alaska's North Slope coastline.
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6/28/2007
Using echo-sounding equipment to create images and maps of areas below the ocean floor, NSF-funded researchers have begun to unravel a new story about the Antarctic ice Sheet.
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6/28/2007
A NASA satellite has captured the first occurrence this summer of strange, glowing polar clouds that form 50 miles above the Earth. The AIM satellite has tracked these clouds since May 25.
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6/25/2007
Huge and distant cousins of today’s penguins might have basked in a warm climate along the Peruvian coast more than 30 million years ago, fossils of two extinct penguin species suggest.
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6/22/2007
Scientists have added a highly carnivorous form of wolf that lived in Alaska, north of the ice sheets, to list of large mammals that became extinct at the end of the Ice Age.
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