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Calibrating Greenland’s Ice Core Record
17.09.2009
With the Greenland ice sheet's ability to cause a sharp sea level rise, knowing its stability is a key concern. New research conducted by scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen helped provide more information in this quest.
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Drop in CO2 Levels Linked to Formation of Antarctic Ice Sheet
17.09.2009
For the first time, a major study recently published in Nature, has linked declining CO2 levels in the Earth's atmosphere 34 million years ago with the formation of the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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Large Underwater Mountain Discovered in Arctic
16.09.2009
An unusual underwater mountain was discovered during a joint US-Canadian exploration of the Arctic sea bed as ships were pushing north in the Arctic to measure the extent of the North American continental shelf. The mountain, 3,800 feet high and located approximately 700 miles north of Alaska, might lead to…
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North Pole 37 Arrives at Its Destination
15.09.2009
North Pole 37, the 37th Russian manned drifting station, has reached an ice block north of Wrangel Island in easternareas of the Arctic Ocean aboard the Yamal nuclear-poweredicebreaker.
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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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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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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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Tracing Carbon Sequestration in Northern Peatland Climate Archives
06.08.2009
A new study conducted by the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies shows moisture shifts in the Alaskan sub-Arctic region took place over the past 14,000 years. This observed variation is a significant discovery in helping to establish a longer perspective on the role of peatlands as carbon sink over…
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Geological Survey Shows Volcanic Eruptions in the Labrador Sea
29.07.2009
Geologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) are back from an expedition during which they conducted a geological survey of the seabed in the Labrador Sea. In studying the so-called Eirik Drift at the southern tip of Greenland, the geologists discovered an underwater mountain that indicates volcanic eruptions took place…
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Seasonal Sea Ice Might Have Formed in Arctic before Antarctic
17.07.2009
A new study suggests that significant sea ice formation started occurring in the Arctic 47.5 million years ago, which suggests sea ice formation might have started in the Arctic before it did in the Antarctic. An international research team came to these conclusions through analysing oceanic sediment cores collected from…
