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2/2/2009
Education World awards Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, produced by Ohio State University for teachers pre-K through grade 5, an A+ for both content and site design.
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2/1/2009
Finding a fossilized, tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle in the Canadian Arctic strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean.
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1/31/2009
The first-ever study estimates that there are 85.4 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable gas from natural gas hydrates on Alaska's North Slope. A transcript of the roughly nine-minute segment is provided.
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1/29/2009
The people of Alakanuk, Alaska know the problems their young people face, but not how those young people manage to live successful lives, as many do. A new IPY grant will allow six universities to examine success stories in communities Arctic-wide.
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1/26/2009
Emperor penguins could be headed toward extinction in at least part of their range before the end of the century, according to a paper by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) researchers, funded in part by NSF
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1/23/2009
Rod Boertje once experienced -60 Fahrenheit while observing caribou for the National Park Service. “You put on all the gear you had to sleep, then got into your 40-below bag. There was still no way to keep warm unless you were moving.”
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1/23/2009
As the U.S. research vessel Laurence M. Gould laid anchor off Antarctica, a team of scientists held its own presidential inaugural celebration on Jan. 20. The scientists dubbed their temporary study area "Ocean Station Obama."
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1/12/2009
In this podcast from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, learn about the health challenges facing people in the Arctic and how research and the IPY address them. A transcript is also provided.
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1/7/2009
NSF's High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) will cover more than 24,000 miles in a series of five flights over three years to sample the atmosphere.
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1/6/2009
"Watching the drill going down the hole and then coming up to deliver ice to the core handlers is like a flawlessly executed ballet dance with everyone and every part of the system working in concert." -- Julie Palais, NSF glaciology program officer.
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