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  • Rocks from Canadian Arctic Offer New Perspective on Primitive Earth

    12.08.2010

    A new discovery made in the Canadian Arctic could offer scientists a fresh perspective on the Earth’s ancient history. According to a paper published in the journal Nature, geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island scientists may have found an untouched part of the Earth's early mantle that…

  • Permafrost Continues to Warm in Northern Hemisphere; Monitoring Increasing

    05.08.2010

    An extensive study on permafrost shows that  permafrost warming continues to spread throughout a wide swath of the Northern Hemisphere. The results of the study, recently published in the journal Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, describe the thermal state of high-latitude permafrost.

  • US and Canada Embark on Joint Effort to Map Disputed Area in Beaufort Sea

    28.07.2010

    For the first time since they embarked on a joint Canada-US seabed mapping project, the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis St. Laurent will join the US Coast Guard cutter Healy to explore a supposedly resource-rich part of the Beaufort Sea claimed by both countries while doing research on sea ice…

  • Canadian Arctic Crater to Simulate Future Space Exploration Conditions

    27.07.2010

    A group of international researchers are currently in the Canadian Arctic testing concepts for future planetary exploration within the framework of the Haughton-Mars Project, an international, multidisciplinary field research project focused on the scientific study of the crater and surrounding terrain on Devon Island. Heading to the Haughton Crater on…

  • Methane Releases from the Arctic to Have Large Impact on Seas Worldwide

    08.07.2010

    A new study published in the Geophysical Research Letters, suggests that massive releases of methane from the Arctic seabed could cause oxygen-depleted dead zones, sea acidification and disrupt ecosystems in several areas of the northern oceans. These events, the scientists involved in the study say, could happen if global warming…

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