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Operation IceBridge Ensures Optimal Data Transmission to Researchers
02.09.2010
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne mission to observe changes in polar land and sea ice, will embark on a fourth field season in October. Over the course of 2009, 41 flights were carried out over a distance of roughly 230 000km. Working with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)…
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NASA’s ICESat Satellite Has Re-entered Earth’s Atmosphere after Final Successful Scientific Mission
31.08.2010
NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation (ICESat) satellite was decommissioned after successfully completing its last scientific mission earlier this year and re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Monday, August 30th. Debris from the ICESat spacecraft fell to Earth in the Barents Sea at approximately 5:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (09:00 GMT).
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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…
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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…
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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…
