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4/7/2008
This month, NASA begins the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere. The mission is poised to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic.
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4/2/2008
A 466-meter-long cylinder of ice (cut into meter-long pieces) from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide project arrived in Denver this week to be analyzed for clues to the past 100,000 years of earth's climate history.
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4/2/2008
A field study now under way is looking at the pollutants within the Arctic atmosphere – called “Arctic Haze” – including their sources, concentrations, and climate impact, in an ice-free region
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4/2/2008
Today, the Committee will conduct an oversight hearing on the Bush administration's delay of the listing of the polar bear. This listing is months overdue, in violation of the Endangered Species Act.
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4/2/2008
Worldwide polar bear population numbers are at or near all-time highs, especially in comparison to 40-50 years ago. Listing polar bears...will alter the original intent of ESA and may create “a regulatory monster of unprecedented proportions.”
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4/1/2008
NASA and its partners have begun the most extensive field campaign ever to study the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere.
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3/26/2008
NOAA’s Fisheries Service has accepted a petition from a California environmental group seeking protection under the Endangered Species Act for an ice seal called the “ribbon seal” that inhabits Alaska’s Bering Sea.
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3/25/2008
Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13,680 square kilometer (5,282 square mile) ice shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change in Antarctica.
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3/20/2008
Three years after calving off the Antarctic Peninsula, Iceberg A53a is breaking apart.
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3/19/2008
Scientists know that air pollution particles from mid-latitude cities migrate to the Arctic and form an ugly haze, but a new University of Utah study funded finds evidence that explorers saw the same phenomenon as early as 1870.
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