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New Species Discovered in Arctic Ocean
03.09.2009
Details of research conducted by an international team of scientists using a remote operated vehicle (ROV) who filmed various kinds of jellyfish and other similar animals in the depths of the isolated Arctic Ocean back in 2005 have recently been published in the journal Deep Sea Research Part II.
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New WWF Report Impacts of Warming Arctic More Dire than We Thought
03.09.2009
A new report from World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications, gives projections more ominous than previous projections such as those of the IPCC's 2007 Fourth Assessment Report. The unprecedented peer-reviewed report ibrought together topclimate scientists to assess the current science on Arctic warming.
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Satellites and Submarines Examining Arctic Sea Ice Thickness
02.09.2009
This past summer, a group of students, accompanied by a Canadian senator, a writer, and a filmmaker joined scientists at Resoulte Bay on the icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent on their journey to the Northwest Passage to get a firsthand look at the sea ice during a workshop designed to increase…
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Taking a Look at At Glacier Retreat on Bylot Island in Greenland
01.09.2009
After spending nearly two decades studying the glaciers on Bylot Island, south of Thule in Greenland, University of Illinois geologist William Shilts has released a study detailing the decline of several glaciers on the island. With photos of the ice cover on the island going back to the 1940s, scientists…
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Inuit Hunting Techniques Helping Scientists
28.08.2009
In Qaanaaq, Greenland, about 850 miles away from the North Pole, an effort to tag narwhals for scientific research is currently underway. The project, which is supported by the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources and lead by Kristin Laidre, an oceanographer at the University of Washington, will use satellite tags…
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Expansion of Commercial Fishing Banned in Arctic Fisheries
26.08.2009
The Arctic fisheries will be protected from the expansion of commercial fishing in US waters north of the Bering Strait (Alaska), which, with about 60 percent of U.S. commercial landings, is called the "fish basket" of the United States.
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North Greenland Ice Core Retrieved under Neem Project
26.08.2009
An international research team from the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling project (NEEM) has retrieved an ice core of 1757.87 m in north-western Greenland. This project is one of the International Polar Year's 2007-2008 major projects.
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Warming Arctic Waters Causes Methane Release
17.08.2009
Researchers from the royal research ship RRS James Clark Ross (part of an International Polar Year initiative) have found that methane gas is being released from methane hydrate stored in the sediment beneath the Arctic seabed. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas co-responsible for climate change (over 100 years, the…
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Alaskan Waters Becoming More Acidic
14.08.2009
According to new findings by a University of Alaska Fairbanks scientist, Alaska's oceans are becoming increasingly acidic, which has both direct and indirect impacts on fauna and economic activities (salmon and king crab fisheries).
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Cryosat-2 Ground Segment Is Ready
10.08.2009
CryoSat-2 is the European Space Agency's (ESA) new satellite. Its mission will be to measure the thickness of floating sea ice and survey the surface of continental ice sheets.
