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Diminishing Sea Ice Having Impact on Seal Pup Populations
06.01.2012
Thinning sea ice cover in the North Atlantic is diminishing harp seal breeding grounds and having an impact on the survival rate of seal pups, according to a study published in the online journal PLoS ONE.
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January 2012 NSIDC Sea Ice Update
06.01.2012
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) released its update on sea ice conditions in the Arctic and Antarctic. A summary follows:
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Beaufort Sea Freshening from Russian River Runoff
05.01.2012
The Beaufort Sea has been becoming fresher recently due to changes in the Arctic Oscillation, causing runoff from Russia’s major rivers to be channeled in the direction of the Western Canadian Arctic.
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Unique New Species Discovered around Antarctic Hydrothermal Vents
04.01.2012
Several species new to science have been discovered inhabiting areas around deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor along the East Scotia Ridge between the southern tip of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. While hydrothermal vents have been studied in other parts of the world’s oceans, this is the…
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Floating Arctic University in the Making
04.01.2012
The Northern Russian port city of Arkhangelsk will host a “floating university” for Arctic research and staff training. A joint project between the Arctic Federal University (NArFU) and the Arctic Hydro-Meteorological Service, lectures and courses will be held aboard the Professor Molchanov research vessel as it conducts research in Arctic…
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New Zealanders Measuring Movement of Magnetic South Pole
31.12.2011
Two research scientists from New Zealand, Stewart Bennie and Tony Hurst of GNS Science, are currently on an expedition in Antarctica to take measurements of the Magnetic South Pole.
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CryoSat-2 Monitoring Oceans Now, Too
26.12.2011
According to the European Space Agency, its CryoSat-2 satellite will soon be used to monitor sea conditions for marine forecasting. The satellite was launched in April 2010 to measure variations in land and sea ice thickness in the Polar Regions, and the satellite has delivered. However while the satellite’s orbit…
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Investigating Adaptation of Antarctic Worms to Warming Oceans
23.12.2011
University of Delaware researchers are currently studying how tiny worms living in the freezing sea off the coast of Antarctica have adapted to such an extreme environment as well as how they might survive as the ocean worms. Adam Marsh and colleagues from the University of Delaware’s College of Earth,…
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New Herbivorous Dinosaur Remains Discovered in Antarctica
22.12.2011
With their recent discovery of advanced titanosaur remains in Antarctica, Dr. Ignacio Alejandro Cerda and his colleagues from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) in Buenos Aires, Argentina have been able to show that this particular variety of dinosaurs were able to achieve global distribution by at…
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Bedrock Map Reveals Antarctic Topography
16.12.2011
A new comprehensive digital map of Antarctica’s bedrock topography called BEDMAP2 has been produced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) using data compiled from an international team of researchers. The map was produced using over 27 million points of data acquired by planes, satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds over the…
