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7/24/2008
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents--one towering nearly four stories in height--are venting water as hot as 570 F.
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7/23/2008
Alison Murray is going where few scientists have gone during the winter, to Antarctica to find clues about how microbes survive and even thrive during the coldest time of the year.
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7/23/2008
The area north of the Arctic Circle has an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, oil, 1,670 trillion cubic feet of technically recoverable natural gas, and 44 billion barrels of natural gas liquids in 25 geologically defined areas, USGS says.
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7/22/2008
On the last day of July, a group of northern-oriented marine scientists will depart on a pioneering expedition to the Beaufort Sea. The expedition is expected to reveal previously unknown information about fish and fish habitat in the Arctic.
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7/15/2008
Two low-flying unmanned aircraft are cruising over Greenland this month to observe the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its contribution to global sea level rise. The flights will determine if the ice sheet will melt faster in the future.
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7/10/2008
The rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during extended episodes of rapid sea ice loss, according to the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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6/26/2008
A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean.
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6/11/2008
For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods--any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages--in Antarctica dating from about 245 million years ago.
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6/11/2008
The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting faster than previously calculated, according to University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist Sebastian H. Mernild. He is conducting the research as part of the university's IPY efforts.
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6/10/2008
The rate of climate warming over northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia could more than triple during periods of rapid sea-ice loss, according to a new study led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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