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9/25/2009
Unusually high temperatures in the Arctic and heavy rains in the tropics likely drove a global increase in atmospheric methane in 2007 and 2008 after a decade of near-zero growth, according to a new study.
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9/1/2009
Bob Jacobel, Grace Whittier Professor of Physics at St. Olaf College, has received NSF funding to participate in an interdisciplinary collaboration of scientists who are studying subglacial environments at two coastal sites in West Antarctica.
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8/26/2009
A new, international Greenland-based research effort set a record for single-season deep ice-core drilling this summer, recovering more than a mile of ice core that will help scientists better assess the risks of future abrupt climate change.
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8/25/2009
New research indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago. The research has important implications for understanding climate change.
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7/28/2009
The U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Task Force will conduct a joint 41-day mission jointly with Canada this summer to collect scientific data about the continental shelf in the Arctic. The mission is scheduled from Aug. 7 to Sept. 16.
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7/14/2009
The Florida State University facility serves as the repository for the world's largest collection of sediment samples extracted from the floor of the Southern Ocean.
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6/21/2009
Modern glaciers, such as those making up the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, are capable of undergoing periods of rapid shrinkage or retreat, according to new findings by paleoclimatologists at the University at Buffalo.
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6/11/2009
The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than expected according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher. The study was partly funded by the University of Alaska Presidential IPY Postdoctoral Foundation
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6/3/2009
Penn State scientists have discovered an ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. NSF, NASA and the Department of Energy funded the research.
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6/2/2009
NOAA's Fisheries Service scientists and their partners have launched an unmanned aircraft to mount the vehicle’s first search for ice seals at the southern edge of the Bering Sea pack ice during the Arctic spring.
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