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12/21/2007
A valuable contribution to the Antarctic climate record was obtained earlier this month when the science party drilled 90 meters of ice core, providing information about climate variations reaching back 1000 years. Read dispatches from the field.
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12/20/2007
A U.S. Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft successfully airdropped 22,372 pounds of supplies to the South Pole on Dec. 18. This is the second consecutive year that aircrews have demonstrated this "critical capability."
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12/12/2007
Record-breaking amounts of ice-free water have deprived the Arctic of more of its natural "sunscreen" than ever in recent summers, according to an NSF-funded researcher.
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12/11/2007
NSF-funded scientists at Ohio State University have discovered what they think may be another reason why Greenland's ice is melting: a thin spot in Earth's crust is enabling underground magma to heat the ice.
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12/10/2007
NSF-funded scientists at Ohio State University have uncovered a new mystery on the Arctic sea floor. Sonar reveals that, in some places, ocean currents have driven the mud along the Arctic Ocean bottom into piles as much 100 feet across.
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12/10/2007
In a mission of unprecedented scale, NSF-supported reserachers are about to cover West Antarctica with a network of global positioning system (GPS) trackers and seismic sensors monitor to the interactions between the ice and the earth below.
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12/10/2007
The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent, making it the largest ever recorded since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder climate scientist.
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12/10/2007
NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere satellite has provided the first global-scale, full-season view of iridescent polar clouds that form 50 miles above Earth’s surface.
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12/10/2007
Researchers use state-of-the-art infrared spectrometers and a new generation of millimeter wavelenth radiometers to collect unprecedented data set of observations of the 183-GHz water vepor line.
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12/7/2007
Seth Davidson, a USGS hydrologic technician worked in Wyoming and Montana throughout his career. He is Antarctica assisting the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research project. Read his journals.
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