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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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2/21/2008
With support from NASA, NSF and NOAA, researchers from Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment (GAs Ex III) are sailed in late February aboard the NOAA ship Ronald H. Brown to study carbon-dioxide interactions with the high-velocity winds.
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2/11/2008
New Arctic sea-floor data released today suggests that the foot of the continental slope off Alaska is more than 100 nautical miles (115 statute miles) farther from the U.S. coast than previously assumed.
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12/28/2007
The global annual temperature−for combined land and ocean surfaces–for 2007 is expected to be near 58.0 F–and would be the fifth warmest since records began in 1880. The greatest warming has taken place in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
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12/28/2007
Japan has agreed not to target humpback whales during its annual whale hunt that is underway in the seas off Antarctica. This year, Japan was planning to target 50 humpback whales for the first time in its Antarctic research program.
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12/10/2007
The 2007 melt extent on the Greenland ice sheet broke the 2005 summer melt record by 10 percent, making it the largest ever recorded since satellite measurements began in 1979, according to a University of Colorado at Boulder climate scientist.
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9/16/2007
More than two decades ago, Susan Solomon and her colleagues deciphered the chemistry of the Antarctic ozone hole. Today, NOAA continues to lead in this area, including producing 20 questions and answers for non-scientists about ozone depletion.
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9/6/2007
A new study by NOAA scientists shows that areal sea-ice coverage of the Arctic Ocean will decline by more than 40 percent before the summer of 2050, compared to a 1979-1999 base period.
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8/15/2007
NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, in partnership with the University of New Hampshire and the National Science Foundation, will mount a four-week cruise, beginning Aug. 17, to map the Chukchi Cap.
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6/13/2007
The first buoy to monitor ocean acidification, a result of carbon dioxide absorbed by the ocean, has been launched in the Gulf of Alaska and is a new tool for researchers to examine how ocean circulation and ecosystems interact to determine how much carbon dioxide the North Pacific Ocean absorbs each year.
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