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Rare Black Emperor Penguin Found in South Georgia
12.03.2010
Fortuna Bay - a sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia - is home to a rarity: an all-black emperor penguin. While apparently perfectly healthy, the penguin, which has no white on its chest and abdomen, which would give it the characteristic “tuxedo look” emperor penguins normally have, is believed to suffer…
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Humans Not Main Culprit in Musk Ox Population Decline After Last Ice Age
10.03.2010
A team of scientists found that human activity is not the reason behind the drastic decline in Arctic musk ox populations that began 12,000 years ago. The findings, to be published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), shows that while both human and musk ox…
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Orcas Have an Underestimated Potential for Intelligence, Scientists Say
09.03.2010
In exploring the brain of a dead killer whale with an MRI, scientists found enormous potential for intelligence. They found the whales to have the second-largest brains among all ocean mammals, and while not as rich in memory cells as the brains of humans, their brains allow for fine sensing…
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New Findings Back Snowball Earth Theory
05.03.2010
Reporting their findings in the journal Science, a team of geologists led by scientists from Harvard University has found evidence of sea ice reaching until the equator some 716.5 million years ago, adding new elements to support the snowball Earth theory, which theorizes that the Earth has in the past…
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Scientists Looking for Hydrothermal Vents off Antarctic Coast
04.03.2010
As described in the journal Geophysical Research Letters,scienetists have likely discovered new hydrothermal vents off the coast of Antarctica.
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Can Polar Bears Survive Rapid Change in Climate Again?
04.03.2010
A team of scientists was able to determine that the polar bear is a relatively new species that rapidly adapted at a time when the Earth was beginning to warm at the end of an ice age, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy…
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Catlin Arctic Survey to Study Arctic Ocean Acidification
25.02.2010
The Catlin Arctic Survey 2010, which is to begin in early March, will take leading research scientists to an Ice Base some 1,200 km from the North Geographic Pole to study the potential impact of rising levels of acidity in the Arctic Ocean.
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Antarctic Marine Species Settling under Where Larsen Ice Shelf Once Stood
25.02.2010
The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research presented their findings of what has happened to an ecosystem previously shielded by the Larsen A/B Ice Shelf on the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula before it collapsed in 2002 as part of the United Nations General Assembly declaration…
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Grizzlies Encroaching on Polar Bear Territorry in Manitoba
25.02.2010
Biologists from the American Museum of Natural History and City College of the City University of New York (CUNY) have found that grizzly bears are becoming increasingly present in what has traditionally polar bear habitat in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Preliminary data was recently published in Canadian Field Naturalist…
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New Breakthroughs in Polar Research Help Understanding Climate Change
19.02.2010
The latest findings from research on Antarctica’s rich marine life are being presented this week at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The results from the census, which began in 2005, provide the benchmark for future studies on how the sea-floor creatures living in Antarctic waters will…
