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6/21/2007
Scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) will use new robotic underwater vehicles to search for life on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. NSF and NASA are funders.
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6/21/2007
Forests in the United States and other northern mid- and upper-latitude regions play a smaller role than previosuly thought in offsetting global warming, according to a study published in Science.
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6/18/2007
Arctic coastal environments are some of the most vulnerable to climate change. A team of researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) visited Canada’s Mackenzie River Delta in April 2007 to find out just how vulnerable.
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6/18/2007
NASA-funded astro-biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered evidence supporting the presence of large oceans of liquid water on early Mars.
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6/15/2007
Representatives of federal agencies charged with coping with changes in maritime and other policies caused by diminishing Arctic ice cover discussed these changes July 10-12 in Washington D.C.
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6/13/2007
The first buoy to monitor ocean acidification, a result of carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean, has been launched in the Gulf of Alaska and is a new tool for researchers to examine how ocean circulation and ecosystems interact to determine how much carbon dioxide the North Pacific Ocean absorbs each year.
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6/11/2007
A scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) was an author on a paper published in the journal Science recently that presents evidence that recent climate change has weakened one of the Earth's natural carbon 'sinks'; the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.
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6/8/2007
A climate science puzzle has been why different parts of the world, notably Greenland, seemed to warm at different times at the end of the Ice Age. A new study sheds light on warming 17,500 years ago.
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6/5/2007
The discovery of interconnected lakes beneath kilometers of ice in Antarctica could be one of the most important scientific finds in recent years, but proper procedures need to be established before investigation begins, says a Texas A&M University scientist who is a leader in the research efforts.
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5/31/2007
The National Science Foundation (NSF) should work within the environmental framework of the international Antarctic Treaty system to develop a global scientific consensus on minimally disruptive ways to investigate one of the "last unexplored places on Earth"--a unique system of lakes, and the aquatic systems that may connect them, buried thousands of meters under the Antarctic ice sheet--according to a newly released report.
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