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New Study Reconsiders Ancient Inuit Migration Route
04.06.2008
Based on a DNA analysis of a clump of hair from Northern Greenland, a new theory has emerged as to the origins of the first immigrants in Greenland. Not only does this discovery raise new insight as to the early Greenlandic immigration history, it also constitutes the first successful attempt…
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Methane Release from Arctic Clathrates Could Threaten Global Climate
04.06.2008
A new study lead by the University of California at Riverside has shed light on the sudden climate warming which occurred about 635 million years ago. This study pinpoints methane release, a greenhouse gas about 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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Antarctica Inbev Baillet Latour Fellowship Call for Proposals
27.05.2008
A call for proposals has been launched for the first Antarctica InBev-Baillet Latour Fellowship (ABLEF) Award. The laureate of this award will be allocated a research fund enabling him to carry out his study proposal in, or in the vicinity of the Princess Elisabeth Antarctic research station.
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Arctic Ice Shelves Breaking Up
26.05.2008
An expedition conducted by the Canadian military has reported to the BBC vast new fractures in the ice shelves along the Arctic coast. This raises new concerns on the state of the Arctic sea ice this summer and on the effects of climate change.
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Unusual Brittlestar City Dominates Macquarie Ridge near Antarctica
19.05.2008
Scientists from the Census of Marine Life seamount programme, CenSeam, have surprisingly discovered millions of brittlestars living along the Macquarie Ridge, south of New Zealand. This unusual finding shows how unique and unexplored seamounts still are throughout the world's oceans.
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Examining Greenhouse Gases 800,000 Years Ago
16.05.2008
A team of scientists from the European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica (EPICA) has managed to retrieve an ice core containing information on greenhouse gas concentrations that date back 150,000 years further than any core previous studies have found.
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Polar Bears Listed as Threatened Species under Endangered Species Act
16.05.2008
A video published on the National Geographic's website reports that the United States Government has agreed to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
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Last Cryosat-2 Validation Experiment in the Arctic
13.05.2008
Scientists from Denmark, UK, Germany and Canada are currently carrying out the European Space Agency's CryoSat Validation Experiment (CryoVex) 2008. This field campaign follows a number of previous operations aiming to collect data on the snow and ice properties over land and ice in order to calibrate the CryoSat-2 satellite,…
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Climate Models Not in Line with Antarctic Change
13.05.2008
Scientists have found that existing computer models predicting climate change in Antarctica showed temperatures varying between 2.5 and 5 times the actual recorded temperatures. This new insight reveals that climate modelling is not fully integrating the particular climate factors present in Antarctica.
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Undersea Arctic Rocks Resemble Those in the Southern Hemisphere
08.05.2008
Scientists have found volcanic rocks under the Arctic Ocean having the same particular geochemical signature as rocks in the southern hemisphere. This discovery re-opens an underlying debate concerning the origin of such formations.
