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10/22/2009
Despite the fact that summer 2009 had more sea ice than in 2007 or 2008, scientists are seeing drastic changes in the region from just five years ago and at rates faster than anticipated, according to NOAA's "Arctic Report Card."
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10/22/2009
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced a proposal to designate critical habitat for the polar bear, and will open a 60-day public comment period on the measure.
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10/20/2009
Christine Hedge, a 7th-grade science teacher who spent six weeks in the Arctic Ocean on board the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy, discovered an underwater mountain.
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10/16/2009
The National/Naval Ice Center (NIC) has concluded that the 2009 sea ice minimum, which occurred between Sept. 16 and 23, is the third lowest since 1979.
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10/8/2009
Writing in American Scientist, NSF-funded researchers describe how they used satellite ice measurements to examine the roles of luck and environment in the outcomes of Nansen's Fram expedition and Shackleton's Endurance voyage.
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10/8/2009
Starting in November, NASA will fly missions in a DC-8--a 157-foot-long airborne laboratory--to study to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers as part of the agency's Operation Ice Bridge.
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10/1/2009
Using samples from the multinational ANDRILL Program, NSF-funded researchers and their international colleagues now have evidence that a sudden warm period occurred in Antarctica about 15.7 million years ago and lasted for a few thousand years.
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9/9/2009
An innovative unmanned aircraft conceived and built at the NSF-funded Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets recently passed its first flight test, a crucial step toward gathering better data at slower speeds and lower altitudes over icy terrain.
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9/8/2009
A new study finds that Arctic oil development has attracted populations of predators including Arctic fox, ravens, and gulls, which feed on nesting birds. The predators use everything from drilling platforms to road culverts to nest or den.
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9/3/2009
Although the Arctic has been receiving less energy from the summer sun for the past 8,000 years, Arctic summer temperatures began climbing in 1900 and accelerated after 1950.
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