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2/1/2009
Finding a fossilized, tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle in the Canadian Arctic strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America directly across a freshwater sea floating atop the warm, salty Arctic Ocean.
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1/29/2009
The existing infrastructure for responding to maritime accidents in the Arctic is limited and more needs to be done to enhance emergency response capacity as Arctic sea ice declines and ship traffic in the region increases, according to the report.
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1/26/2009
A new scientific study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reaches a powerful conclusion about the climate change caused by future increases of carbon dioxide: to a large extent, there’s no going back.
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1/23/2009
As the U.S. research vessel Laurence M. Gould laid anchor off Antarctica, a team of scientists held its own presidential inaugural celebration on Jan. 20. The scientists dubbed their temporary study area "Ocean Station Obama."
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1/21/2009
For the last 50 years, much of Antarctica has been warming at a rate comparable to the rest of the world. In fact, the warming in West Antarctica is greater than the cooling in East Antarctica, meaning that on average the continent has gotten warmer.
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1/8/2009
NSF and NASA have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that will one day enable a new era of high-altitude scientific research.
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12/22/2008
NSF's Office of Polar Programs has signed cooperative agreements that create two new entities to support, advise and conduct ice coring and drilling used in polar research.
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12/19/2008
The U.S. could suffer the effects of abrupt climate changes within decades, says a new report. It contends that, among other effects, seas could rise rapidly if melting of polar ice continues to outrun recent projections.
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12/18/2008
A convoy of trucks has set out for a frozen lake 62 miles north of the Arctic Circle to deliver drilling equipment for a study of sediment and meteorite-impact rocks that should provide the oldest Arctic climate record ever collected.
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12/17/2008
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list one penguin species as endangered and five penguin species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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