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5/30/2007
NASA and Columbia University Earth Institute research finds that human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth’s climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.
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5/29/2007
NASA will fund 33 new scientific investigations to advance interdisciplinary studies of Earth's polar regions and the objectives of the International Polar Year (IPY). The three-year projects, supported through total of $18 million in funding, will be conducted by scientists and students at several NASA centers, U.S. universities and other research institutions.
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5/22/2007
The Arctic Council of the United States’ (ARCUS) annual meeting was held in Washington D.C. on May 23 and 24, 2007. ARCUS also hosts the Arctic Forum, in conjunction with annual meeting. The 19th annual meeting and Arctic Forum 2007 was jointly hosted by ARCUS and the Embassy of Sweden. The meetings were Webcast live beginning May 23.
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5/17/2007
When Elizabeth Thomas, a graduate student at the University at Buffalo, travels this month to Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, she will sample sediments from frozen lakes as part of an NSF-funded research team, but she also teach Inuit students about global warming and take local schoolchildren on a sediment-coring field trip.
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5/16/2007
A team of NASA and University of Colorado at Boulder scientists has found clear evidence that extensive areas of snow melted in west Antarctica in January 2005 in response to warm temperatures.
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5/16/2007
Every week while at sea, Coast Guard Lt. (jg) Stephen Elliott, public affairs officer aboard the icbereaker Healy, sends out updates on the ship's science mission in the Arctic.
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5/11/2007
A National Science Foundation-funded research team tracing the origin of the large carbon-dioxide increase in Earth’s atmosphere at the end of the last ice age has detected two ancient “burps” that originated from the deepest parts of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica. The study shows that carbon that had built up in the ocean over millennia was released in two big pulses at about 18,000 years ago and 13,000 years ago.
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5/1/2007
The Smithsonian Institution will host a polar science symposium as one of the inaugural U.S. contributions to celebrate the International Polar Year 2007-2008.
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5/1/2007
The ARMADA Project at the University of Rhode Island allows K-12 teachers to participate in ocean, polar, and environmental science research and peer mentoring. Master Teachers bring the fruits of their experiences into their classrooms. NSF funds ARMADA.
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4/30/2007
Arctic sea ice is melting at a significantly faster rate than projected by the most advanced computer models, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
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