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Penguins Sound the Alarm over the Health of World Oceans
03.07.2008
A new study was conducted on penguins from the tropics to Antarctica and published in the July-August edition of the journal BioScience. According to the author, Dee Boersma from the University of Washington, penguins are sounding the alarm over catastrophic changes occurring throughout the oceans worldwide.
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Climate Forecasts Depend on Accurate Ice Sheet Modelling
03.07.2008
Progress and future research objectives in the field of glacier movement is currently being considered by the European Science Foundation (ESF). The objective is to be able to model the flow of ice sheets and glaciers more accurately. It is important for climate modelling to know how polar ice caps…
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Deep Sea Arctic Underwater Volcanoes
27.06.2008
Evidence has been found deep beneath the ice-covered Arctic Ocean for explosive volcanic eruptions at about 4,000 metres below the sea surface. This finding, published in the journal Nature, refutes previous theories that such violent explosions could not possibly occur at such a significant depth.
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Geographic North Pole Might Be Ice-Free This Summer
24.06.2008
Field observations and satellite data show that the immediate area around the geographic North Pole is now mostly thin annual (first-year) ice, which could melt entirely this summer It would mostly be symbolic, since thicker ice will still survive the summer in other areas of the Arctic.
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Greenland Ice Coring Reveals Climate Shift
24.06.2008
North GRIP drilling data, extracted from ice cores in Greenland, has revealed an abrupt and dramatic climate change following the last ice age. Detailed results based on chemical composition were gathered by an international team of researchers lead by the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen. This technique…
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The Impact of Boreal Forest Fires on Arctic Climate
20.06.2008
During the summer fire season, NASA aircrafts will begin their final three-week deployment of the ARCTAS mission (Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites), which aims at studying the impact of the planet's northernmost forest fires on Arctic climate.
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Extraterrestrial Rock Found in Antarctica
20.06.2008
According to the BBC news website, a pair of meteorites was found in 2006 in the Graves-Nunataks region of Antarctica. These rocks defy all meteorite groupings made thus far, making scientists ponder where in the Solar System the meteorites could have originated from.
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Warming Climate Threatens Life Worldwide
20.06.2008
A new National Aeronautics and Space Administration study shows how climate warming has affected natural systems worldwide. The new study, lead by Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science, links physical and biological impacts with temperature rise since 1970.
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Greenland Ice Core Analysis Sheds Light on the Speed of Natural Climate Change Process
20.06.2008
Analysis of a Greenland ice core shows that two huge temperature spurts in the Northern Hemisphere at the end of the last ice age coincided with fundamental shifts in atmospheric circulation.
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ESA Monitors Concordia Stations Crewmembers
18.06.2008
A cooperation agreement between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the operators of Concordia station in Antarctica outlines medical research projects to be carried out on the station's crewmembers. The idea is to see how the human body withstands and adapts to the extreme environment of Antarctica, with the hope…
