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  • Study of Sea-bed Colonies of Bryozoans Suggest Evidence for Trans-Antarctic Seaway

    31.08.2010

    Within the framework of a study for the Census of Antarctic Marine Life (CAML), scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) had a look at sea-bed colonies of bryozoans. Analyzing these colonies, which stretch from coastal to deep-sea regions around Antarctica, the team found similarities in different species of bryozoans separated…

  • 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…

  • Study Shows Hungry Polar Bears a Threat to Barnacle Geese in Svalbard

    23.08.2010

    Having just returned from a Svalbard expedition, a Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) scientists confirmed that stranded polar bears are devastating breeding barnacle goose populations in the summer months while looking for food. According to their research, as the Arctic sea ice diminishes, polar bears, especially on the west coast…

  • AWI’s Polar 5 Aircraft Measures Arctic Sea Ice Thickness North of Greenland

    23.08.2010

    Scientists are worried as the sea ice over the Arctic Ocean reaches its annual minimum in September. While forecasts suggest that the extent is unlikely to hit another all-time low, sea ice physicists at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) are concerned about the long-term equilibrium in the Arctic Ocean. In…

  • Researchers Find Possible Answer to Antarctic Paradox

    17.08.2010

    Although the sea ice extent has been consistently receding in the Arctic, Antarctic sea ice has seen a slight increase in the past few decades. In a paper published in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology…

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