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Climate and Habitability
06.08.2009
Scientists from the NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science (GISS) have been looking into shifts in climate and their consequences for the planet's environment and life. As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures rise, impacts are being witnessed on physical and biological systems around the world: glaciers and permafrost are melting,…
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Fighting Climate Change Using Native Traditional Knowledge
23.04.2009
The Indigenous People's Global Summit on Climate Change is being hosted by the Inuit Circumpolar Council in Anchorage, Alaska, April 20-24. This United Nations-affiliated conference is a way of gathering messages and recommendations that worldwide Indigenous communities would like to express to authorities, but also a way of strengthening participation…
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Live from the Bering Sea
02.04.2009
Beginning April 4th, students, teachers, museum visitors and virtual explorers can follow a multi-institutional team of researchers led by Carin Ashjian of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, USA on a 38-day expedition in the Arctic's Bering Sea.
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Biomass Burning Reducing Albedo of the Arctic
11.03.2009
A new study by researchers at the Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division (ESRL CSD) and the Global Monitoring Division (GMD) and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), published on 30January in Geophysical Research Letters, showed that the 2008springtime "Arctic haze" over northern Alaska and the…
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The IPY: A Success Story
02.03.2009
Scientists and policymakers gathered at the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday 25 February to mark the end of the fourth International Polar Year.
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Emergency Infrastructure in Arctic Limited
03.02.2009
A new report released today by the University of New Hampshire and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says the existing infrastructure for emergencies in the Arctic is limited. The report, which includes findings from a panel of experts and decision-makers from the governments of Arctic nations, industry and…
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Antarctica Warmed More than Previously Thought in Last 50 Years
23.01.2009
Until recently scientists studying climate change believed that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet was not getting significantly warmer like the rest of the planet and actually getting colder, and that the Antarctic Peninsula was the only part of the continent getting significantly warmer. However a recent study by Eric Steig,…
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Working Together on Arctic History
05.11.2008
Lead by a Florida State University researcher, an international team of historians is currently working to produce one of the most comprehensive histories of the Arctic. "What we're doing is looking at the Arctic from a comparative international perspective," says Ronald E. Doel, associate professor of history at FSU and…
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Unaffiliates Discuss Fragile Polar Regions
10.09.2008
Within the International Polar Year (IPY) framework, a group of international experts met in Iceland for a UN-affiliated conference on the Polar Regions. According to A.H. Zakri, Director of the United Nations University's Yokohama-based Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), "many experts believe this new rush to the polar regions is…
