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Greenland’s Glaciers Losing Ice Faster this Year than Last Year, which was Record-setting Itself

12/15/2008 NSF-funded, Ohio State University researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago. More

As Ice Melts, Antarctic Bedrock is on the Move, NSF-funded Researchers Find

12/15/2008 As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists at Ohio State University have discovered. More

Arctic "Greening" Linked to Retreating Sea Ice

12/12/2008 An interdisciplinary group of scientists led by Donald “Skip” Walker of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has strongly linked sea-ice changes to changes in Arctic land temperatures and greening of the tundra. More

New Rule Unifies Domestic and International Conservation Laws to Manage Polar Bear

12/11/2008 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a Special Rule under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) providing for the conservation of the polar bear. The rule can be viewed at: http://alaska.fws.gov/pdf/pb4d.pdf. More

McChord Airmen Fuel Remote Antarctic Research Camp

12/9/2008 The U.S. Air Force completed the first C-17 airdrop to a field camp in Antarctica's Gamburtsev Mountains Nov. 26. Thirty bundles of fuel and other supplies were delivered to a scientific camp in one of the most remote locations on earth. More

Speed Matters for Ice-shelf Breaking

11/27/2008 It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn State researchers. More

Alaska Long-Term Ecological Research Program Researchers take Climate Change Seminar to Venetie

11/25/2008 Residents of Venetie, Alaska, week welcomed ten researchers from the UAF Bonanza Creek LTER program for an open discussion about climate change and its implications for rural villages and their subsistence livelihoods. More

NOAA Scientist to Receive Grande Medaille from French Academy for Work on Antarctic Ozone Hole, IPCC Report

11/21/2008 For her scientific achievements, including pioneering research that helped explain the cause of the ozone hole, NOAA Senior Scientist Susan Solomon will receive the Grande Medaille from the Institute of France’s Academy of Sciences. More

NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars

11/20/2008 MRO has revealed vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. More

NASA: Antarctic Balloon Mission Discovers Mysterious Source of High-Energy Cosmic Radiation

11/20/2008 Scientists announced the discovery of a previously unidentified nearby source of high-energy cosmic rays. The finding was made with a NASA-funded balloon-borne instrument high over Antarctica. NSF provided the Antarctic logistics for the mission. More
                                      
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