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Looming Antarctic Krill Crisis As Fishing industry Grows
02.09.2010
Nature reports that Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba), one of the Earth’s largest sources of protein, has come under stress as the rapid growth in krill fishing has been added to climate change as an extra threat to crustaceans. Whilst fish farms worldwide are increasingly depending on krill to feed fish,…
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Operation IceBridge Ensures Optimal Data Transmission to Researchers
02.09.2010
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne mission to observe changes in polar land and sea ice, will embark on a fourth field season in October. Over the course of 2009, 41 flights were carried out over a distance of roughly 230 000km. Working with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)…
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Arctic Oil and Gas Drilling Has Started in Greenland’s Waters
02.09.2010
Oil drilling started in Greenland's waters last week, opening up a new part of the Arctic to natural resource exploitation. With an estimated 13% of the world's remaining oil and 30 % of its gas, various multinational companies are interested in getting a share. As Arctic drilling presents multiple technical…
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Are Extreme Climatic Events Linked to Climate Change?
31.08.2010
From the recent heat waves in Russia to the current floods in Pakistan, the question as to whether climate change is responsible for these extreme events seems to be on everybody’s lips these days. Separately reporting in The Guardian and Wired Science, prominent climatologists Peter Stott from the British Met…
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IceCube Neutrino Observatory to be Completed in December 2010
31.08.2010
December 2010 should see the completion of the world’s first kilometer-scale neutrino observatory, IceCube, located beneath the surface of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the universe, and although they are formed by the most violent events in the universe, they have no charge,…
