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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,…

  • NASA’s ICESat Satellite Has Re-entered Earth’s Atmosphere after Final Successful Scientific Mission

    31.08.2010

    NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) satellite was decommissioned after successfully completing its last scientific mission earlier this year and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Monday, August 30th.  Debris from the ICESat spacecraft fell to Earth in the Barents Sea at approximately 5:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (09:00 GMT).

  • CO2 Release from Oceans at End of Last Ice Age Occured at Regional, Not Global Scale, New Study Says

    26.08.2010

    In a recent paper published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists lead by Rutgers Univsersity in New Jersey suggest that a massive carbon dioxide escape from the oceans could have occurred over a 1,000 year period after the end of the last glaciation. The paper shows that the…

  • Ice-free Arctic Not Very Effective as Carbon Sink

    03.08.2010

    While researchers in past years suggested a melting Arctic Ocean could be an ally in the struggle against rising levels of carbon dioxide, new research published in the journal Science shows this may not be the case. The results of a survey conducted in the waters of the Canada Basin…

  • Tree Ring Study Shows Signs of Reversing Arctic Cooling

    31.07.2010

    While some parts of the Arctic have cooled over the past century, overall temperatures have seen a steady rise since 1990, according to a summer temperature reconstruction for the past 400 years. In their study, which was published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, scientists from the Institute…

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