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Dead Penguins Found along Brazilian Beaches
22.07.2008
Each year, strong ocean currents in the Strait of Magellan (along the southern edge of the South American continent) bring in large numbers of dead penguins along Rio de Janeiro's tropical beaches. But this year, over 400 baby penguins have been found over the past two months, more than what…
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Icebergs Affect Biodiversity on Antarctic Peninsula
18.07.2008
New data suggests that the Antarctic Peninsula's seabed is going to get hit more frequently by scouring icebergs. This increase in iceberg disturbance on the seabed, which is home to about 80% of all Antarctic life, could have severe effects on the marine creatures living there.
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Granite Boulder Connects the Dots between Antarctica and North America
18.07.2008
A lone granite boulder found atop the Nimrod Glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains provides additional evidence to support the theory that, hundreds of millions of years ago, parts of Antarctica were once connected to North America.
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NASA Robots to Help Scientists Collecting Data in Polar Regions
16.07.2008
Unmanned, autonomous NASA robots resembling miniaturized snowmobiles were tested in Alaska last month. These prototypes - called SnoMotes - will help scientists gathering accurate field data in remote or dangerous areas.
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Penguins Sound the Alarm over the Health of World Oceans
03.07.2008
A new study was conducted on penguins from the tropics to Antarctica and published in the July-August edition of the journal BioScience. According to the author, Dee Boersma from the University of Washington, penguins are sounding the alarm over catastrophic changes occurring throughout the oceans worldwide.
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Climate Forecasts Depend on Accurate Ice Sheet Modelling
03.07.2008
Progress and future research objectives in the field of glacier movement is currently being considered by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The objective is to be able to model the flow of ice sheets and glaciers more accurately. It is important for climate modelling to know how polar ice caps…
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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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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,…
