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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.
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Baltic Sea Ice down to Record Low
08.05.2008
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Agency (SMHI) has reported the lowest extent on record of the Baltic sea ice.
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Synthetic Pesticide Levels in Antarctic Penguins Present a Complex Mystery
06.05.2008
For the past 30 years, DDT (Dichloro-Diphenyl-Trichloroethane synthetic pesticide) derivatives have persisted in Antarctic penguins at a constant level, and researchers say glacial meltwater may be the source.
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Caribou as Indicator of Climate Change
06.05.2008
Fewer caribou calves are born and more are dying in West Greenland. A recent study conducted by Eric Post, from Penn State University in collaboration with Mads Forchhammer, from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, shows that the timing of peak food availability no longer corresponds to the caribou's calving…
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Melting Sea Ice
05.05.2008
The September 2007 record low minimum extent of the Arctic sea ice could be broken this fall for the third time in five years. According to the calculations of scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the minimum extent of the Arctic sea ice has a three-in-five chance of…
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ADRILL Cores to Be Analysed at Florida State University
30.04.2008
The sediment cores extracted during the ANDRILL project (Antarctic Geological Drilling) are now stored in the "cold room" at Florida State University to be studied. Through the analysis of these cores extracted from deep beneath the sea floor of Antarctica's western Ross Sea, scientists hope to gain new insight into…
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Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Marine Mammals
30.04.2008
Published in the Ecological Applications of the Ecological Society of America, a new study entitled "Arctic Marine Mammals and Climate Change" estimates hooded seals, polar bears and narwhals to be the most at-risk mammals of the Arctic.
