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