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6/10/2010
Greenland’s glaciers are not simply melting, cautions Fiamma Straneo, a physical oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. It would be more accurate to say they’re falling apart, according to her NSF- and NASA-funded research.
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5/20/2010
An NSF-funded research team, led by scientists from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, is at sea measuring the underwater movements and behaviors of humpback and minke whales. Track their progress and see images.
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3/16/2010
At a level of 182 meters (600 feet) below Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf, a video camera designed to observe the conditions under the ice recorded a shrimp-like creature more than 20 kilometers (12.5 miles) from open water. Watch the video.
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3/5/2010
Findings published in the March 5 edition of the journal Science, show that the permafrost under the East Siberian Arctic Shelf is perforated and is leaking large amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere.
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2/6/2010
The delicate balance of life in the waters that surround Antarctica is especially susceptible to the effects of ocean acidification and the impact on the marine life there will serve as a bellwether for global climate-change, says Jim McClintock.
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12/22/2009
Carin Ashjian, an NSF-supported biologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, narrates a slideshow about Arctic research aboard the U.S Coast Guard icebreaker Healy.
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12/17/2009
A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASA's THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light.
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11/5/2009
Researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution talk about the creatures that make up the base of the Antarctic food chain, their importance in the global ecosystem and what draws people to become scientists.
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10/8/2009
Starting in November, NASA will fly missions in a DC-8--a 157-foot-long airborne laboratory--to study to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers as part of the agency's Operation Ice Bridge.
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9/9/2009
An innovative unmanned aircraft conceived and built at the NSF-funded Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets recently passed its first flight test, a crucial step toward gathering better data at slower speeds and lower altitudes over icy terrain.
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