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  • Antarctic Runway for Jets

    27.05.2005

    The Australian Government has approved the building of an ice runway and supporting an air link between Hobart, Australia and Australia’s Casey Station in Antarctica.

  • East Antarctica Puts on Weight

    27.05.2005

    A satellite survey shows that between 1992 and 2003, the East Antarctic ice sheet gained about 45 billion tonnes of ice as predicted by the IPCC.

  • Post-2012 Climate Talks Stalled at UN Conference

    26.05.2005

    Global talks on an international regime to curb climate change after Kyoto made little progress at a UN conference in Bonn. EU-US delegates were unable to agree on a common statement after bilateral meetings on 18 May.

  • NASA Study Finds Snow Melt Causes Large Ocean Plant Blooms

    26.05.2005

    A NASA funded study has found a decline in winter and spring snow cover over Southwest Asia and the Himalayan mountain range is creating conditions for more widespread blooms of ocean plants in the Arabian Sea.

  • Sea Level Records Reveal Surprising Variations

    26.05.2005

    A new reconstruction of past changes shows that the level of the oceans varied more dramatically during between ice ages than was previously thought, implying that the global climate during these intervals was not as stable as most scientists think.

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