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2/6/2010
Winds reach more than 70 mph and waves tower over three stories high in this narrow passage on the doorstep of the Arctic Circle, where waters flow southward from the Arctic Ocean to the North Atlantic.
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1/12/2010
In a vivid example of how a small geographic feature may have far-reaching impacts on climate, new research shows that water levels in the Bering Strait helped drive global climate patterns during ice-age episodes over 100,000 years.
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1/12/2010
Until recently, the Antarctic ice sheet looked to be bucking the global warming trend. Now a new study shows an overall warming trend across Antarctica, with this trend being strongest over the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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12/29/2009
There is more evidence that the Arctic could face seasonally ice-free conditions and much warmer temperatures in the future, accoridng to USGS scientists.
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12/22/2009
Carin Ashjian, an NSF-supported biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, narrates a slideshow about Arctic research aboard the U.S Coast Guard icebreaker Healy.
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12/17/2009
A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light.
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12/16/2009
Scientists who study the melting of Greenland’s glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.
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12/3/2009
The ENDURANCE (Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctic Explorer) is a mini-sub that is exploring and sampling Antarctica's perpetually frozen lakes. Read details of the project and dispatches from the ENDURANCE field team.
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12/2/2009
This page serves the home for a series of articles, exclusive to this site, to highlight discoveries made possible, in whole or in part, through federal IPY funding.
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11/5/2009
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution talk about the creatures that make up the base of the Antarctic food chain, their importance in the global ecosystem and what draws people to become scientists.
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