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6/26/2011
Stronger ocean currents beneath West Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf are eroding the ice from below, speeding the melting of the glacier as a whole.
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6/1/2011
Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high-resolution topographic map of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, an immense ice-buried lowland in East Antarctica larger than Texas.
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4/15/2011
Researchers and flight crew arrived in Thule, Greenland this week for the start of NASA's 2011 Operation IceBridge, an airborne mission to study changes in Arctic polar ice.
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2/25/2011
Newly excavated remains found at the Xaasaa Na' archaeological site near the Tanana River in central Alaska may belong to one of the earliest inhabitants of North America.
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11/5/2010
Melt water flowing through ice sheets via crevasses, fractures and large drains called moulins can carry warmth into ice sheet. interiors, greatly accelerating the response of an ice sheet to climate change
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10/22/2010
Scientists returned this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission is set to begin its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica. The mission monitors the region's changing sea ice, ice sheets and glaciers.
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10/6/2010
The United States has joined other Arctic Coastal States in a mutual effort to develop nautical charts that will improve the safety of mariners transiting the Arctic.
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10/4/2010
An eventful summer sea-ice melt season has ended in the Arctic. Ice extent reached its low for the year--the third lowest in the satellite record--on Sept. 19, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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8/6/2010
An “ice island” four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.
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8/4/2010
After years of concentrated effort, scientists from the international North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project hit bedrock more than 8,300 feet below the surface of the Greenland ice sheet last week.
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