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USGS: New Method to Estimate Sea-Ice Thickness Uses Historical Data from the 1980's through 2003

3/6/2008 USGS and Russian scientists recently developed a new modeling approach, based entirely on historical observations, to estimate sea-ice thickness. More

Spring is Aurora Season

3/4/2008 For reasons not fully understood, auroras are more common in the spring than at other times. The five-craft THEMIS fleet may help scientists determine why. More

NASA Sees Avalanches Near Mars's North Pole

3/3/2008 A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole. More

'Lost' Sediments Show Details of Polar Magnetic Field, according to University of California Davis Researchers

2/29/2008 Researchers studying cores of sediment collected 40 years ago have found evidence for magnetic field vortices in the Earth's core beneath the South Pole. The results came from materials collected by the U.S. Navy as part of Operation Deep Freeze. More

NASA Eyes Future Landing Site at Moon's South Pole

2/27/2008 NASA has obtained the highest resolution terrain mapping to date of the moon's rugged south polar region, with a resolution to 20 meters per pixel. More

Voyage to Southern Ocean Aims to Understand Air-sea Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases

2/27/2008 Scientists from over a dozen institutions will embark today to spend 42 days amid the high winds and big waves of the Southern Ocean, to try to explain how large amounts of climate-affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa. More

Greenland's Rising Air Temperatures Drive Ice Loss

2/20/2008 The surface temperature of Greenland's massive ice sheet has been rising, stoked by warming air temperatures, and fueling ice loss at the surface and throughout the mass beneath. More

Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium Celebrates IPY

2/19/2008 The Alaska Statewide High School Science Symposium will take place on March 1 and 2, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska. This year’s conference theme is IPY. More

Antarctic Researcher: Small Sea Creatures may be the 'Canaries in the Coal Mine' of Climate Change

2/17/2008 As oceans warm and become more acidic, ocean creatures are undergoing severe stress and entire food webs are at risk, according to scientists at a press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More

Warming Waters May Make Antarctica Hospitable to Sharks, says University of Rhode Island Research team

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. More
                                      
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