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The Impact of Boreal Forest Fires on Arctic Climate
20.06.2008
During the summer fire season, NASA aircrafts will begin their final three-week deployment of the ARCTAS mission (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites), which aims at studying the impact of the planet's northernmost forest fires on Arctic climate.
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Extraterrestrial Rock Found in Antarctica
20.06.2008
According to the BBC news website, a pair of meteorites was found in 2006 in the Graves-Nunataks region of Antarctica. These rocks defy all meteorite groupings made thus far, making scientists ponder where in the Solar System the meteorites could have originated from.
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Warming Climate Threatens Life Worldwide
20.06.2008
A new National Aeronautics and Space Administration study shows how climate warming has affected natural systems worldwide. The new study, lead by Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science, links physical and biological impacts with temperature rise since 1970.
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Greenland Ice Core Analysis Sheds Light on the Speed of Natural Climate Change Process
20.06.2008
Analysis of a Greenland ice core shows that two huge temperature spurts in the Northern Hemisphere at the end of the last ice age coincided with fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.
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ESA Monitors Concordia Stations Crewmembers
18.06.2008
A cooperation agreement between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the operators of Concordia station in Antarctica outlines medical research projects to be carried out on the station's crewmembers. The idea is to see how the human body withstands and adapts to the extreme environment of Antarctica, with the hope…
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Ice Quake in Ice Stream Dynamics
17.06.2008
Investigating a massive quake through the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a group of scientists lead by Washington University in St.Louis, Missouri, have discovered that the Whillians Ice Stream moves in an earthquake-like pattern. This finding, although restricted to a single ice stream and counter to previous understanding of ice motion,…
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Ozone Hole Recovery May Cause Climate Shift
17.06.2008
Published in the June 13th issue of Science, a study argues that the closing of the ozone hole over Antarctica may significantly affect the Southern Hemisphere's climate.
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Melting Sea Ice Could Lead to Faster Thawing of Permafrost
16.06.2008
Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado investigating the dramatic reduction in Arctic sea ice cover during the past few years have reached a rather disturbing conclusion in their latest research, published Friday, June 13th in…
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Wilkins Loses More Ice in Recent Breakup Event
16.06.2008
The Wilkins Ice Shelf, which lost nearly 425 km2 of ice during a break-up event back in a February, has recently started to lose more ice, according to a 12 June press release on the website of the University of Münster's Institute for Geophysics.
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Fossil Burrows Found in Antarctica
12.06.2008
Fossil burrows dating back to the Early Triassic period, about 245 million years ago, have been found in Antarctica. The lead author of this research paper, published in the June edition of the Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, believes these tunnels could have housed tetrapods, land vertebrates having four limbs.
