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September 2 2010.
Marine Animals Suggest Evidence for a Trans-Antarctic Seaway
A tiny marine filter-feeder, that anchors itself to the sea bed, offers new clues to scientists studying the stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet -- a region that is thought to be vulnerable to collapse. |
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September 2 2010.
Canada Burnishes Its Position as Arctic Power
The Canadian government on Monday announced that it had failed, in a small Arctic expedition it mounted last week, to find the remains of two British ships that disappeared more than 150 years ago seeking the fabled Northwest Passage. |
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September 2 2010.
Operation IceBridge Ensures Optimal Data Transmission to Researchers
Operation IceBridge, NASA’s airborne mission to observe changes in polar land and sea ice, will embark on a fourth field season in October. Over the course of 2009, 41 flights were carried out over a distance of roughly 230 000km. Working with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, NASA aims to bring data from the aircraft and instruments to researchers' computers as fast as possible. |
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September 2 2010.
Dangerous Climate Picture Impossible to Ignore
The headlines from the hottest year-to-date on record paint a dangerous climate picture, consistent with the overwhelming scientific evidence. |
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September 1 2010.
Polar explorer finds ice-free North Pole
Norwegian explorer Børge Ousland has been able to sail his 31 feet sailboat through the Northeast Passage without any significant problems with ice. |
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September 1 2010.
FACTBOX-Errors, findings by UN panel of climate scientists
Experts will recommend reforms to the U.N. panel of climate scientists on Monday to avoid errors such as an exaggeration of the rate of melt of the Himalayas in a 2007 report. |
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September 1 2010.
Ice Strenghtened Passenger ship Clipper Adventurer hits Uncharted Rock in the Arctic Ocean
The ice strengthened passenger ship Clipper Adventurer( formally ALLA TARASOVA) ran aground on the 27. of August on a uncharted rock in the Arctic Ocean. The ship which is a 330 foot vessel equipped with an A-1 Ice class and was currently on a cruise with 128 passengers and 69 crew members. |
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September 1 2010.
Science and the Cultural Arts: SCAR-OSC 2012
We invite all Antarctic researchers, to consider participating in a unique series of music and cultural arts events that will be held in conjunction with the next Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) Open Science Conference in July 2012 in Portland Oregon. The events will highlight the creative talents of Antarctic scientists who use music, film, art, photography in relaying their research results and science messages to the general public (and to others in the science community). |
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September 1 2010.
Techno-Archaeology Rescues Climate Data from Early Satellites
NSIDC and NASA data scientists proved the use of 21st-century techniques to revive data from 1960s satellites. |
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August 31 2010.
Russia ready for joint management of the Barents Sea
Russian wants joint mapping, joint resource management and joint development with Norway in the Border areas of the Barents Sea. |
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August 31 2010.
Norway welcomes China to the Arctic
China can make a valuable contribution in the Arctic region, Norway’s Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said in a speech at the China Institute of International of International Studies Forum in Beijing this week. |
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August 31 2010.
Minimal ice-class vessel to go through Northeast Passage – Russian media
Russian media speculate if the Danish bulk carrier “MV Nordic Barents” is not fit for the journey from Northern Norway to China through the Northeast Passage. |
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August 31 2010.
Dramatic Climate Change Is Unpredictable
The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact on many countries and populations is great around the world. But what causes climate change and is it possible to predict future climate change? New research from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen shows that it may be due to an accumulation of different chaotic influences and as a result would be difficult to predict. |
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August 30 2010.
Report about climate indicators on Svalbard and Jan Mayen
The Environmental Monitoring System for Svalbard and Jan Mayen (MOSJ) observes and describes environmental conditions in the Norwegian Arctic. A new MOSJ-report focuses on climate indicators. |
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August 30 2010.
Climate change: Will Russian heat wave prompt serious action from Moscow?
In recent years, Russia viewed the threat of climate change in naive or cavalier terms. But this summer's devastating weather was a wake-up call. |
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August 30 2010.
British oil company's Arctic find fuels hope of huge new reserves
The Arctic is set to become the world's last dash for oil after a British energy company reported a discovery off the coast of Greenland. |
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August 30 2010.
Metop-A Completes 20,000th Orbit
Metop-A, Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology, will complete its 20,000th orbit of the Earth on 27 August delivering its data to the EUMETSAT Polar System ground station on Svalbard around lunchtime. |
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August 30 2010.
Shell Moves Sakhalin Manager to Australia From Russia
Royal Dutch Shell Plc has brought the former manager of Sakhalin-2, Russia's first liquefied natural gas project, to Australia to oversee development of a proposed venture that may cost more than $20 billion. |
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August 27 2010.
Russia's Arctic policy no cause for alarm, MacKay told
There's a lot of hot air and hype over Russia's Arctic posture, but the old adversary's northern policy interests are almost the same as those of Canada, a briefing note prepared for Defence Minister Peter MacKay says. |
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August 27 2010.
El Ninos Are Growing Stronger, NASA/NOAA Study Finds
A relatively new type of El Nino, which has its warmest waters in the central-equatorial Pacific Ocean, rather than in the eastern-equatorial Pacific, is becoming more common and progressively stronger, according to a new study by NASA and NOAA. The research may improve our understanding of the relationship between El Ninos and climate change, and has potentially significant implications for long-term weather forecasting. |
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August 24 2010.
Sea Level to Rise Even With Aggressive Geo-Engineering and Greenhouse Gas Control, Study Finds
New findings by international research group of scientists from England, China and Denmark just published suggest that sea level will likely be 30-70 centimetres higher by 2100 than at the start of the century even if all but the most aggressive geo-engineering schemes are undertaken to mitigate the effects of global warming and greenhouse gas emissions are stringently controlled. |
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August 26 2010.
The next SAO meeting is to take place in Tórshavn
In October, the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council will meet for their fall session, this time in Torshavn, The Faroe Islands. The meeting will be an important step in the preparations for the Ministerial Meeting in Nuuk, Greenland in May 2011, which will mark the ending of the Danish Chairmanship and the starting point for Sweden as Chair of the Arctic Council. |
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August 25 2010.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visits Russian-German Research Station
Russia’s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, visited the polar research station “Samoylov” in the Lena Delta, North Siberia, to get an impression of Russian and German permafrost research in the region. Putin visited field experiments related to micrometeorology, greenhouse gas flux studies as well as palaeoclimate research. Members of the “Lena Delta 2010 Expedition”, had the unique opportunity to discuss the future of polar research in Northern Russia with the Prime Minister in person. |
