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8/26/2008
Sea ice extent has fallen below the 2005 minimum, previously the second-lowest extent recorded since the dawn of the satellite era. The 2008 record may fall in the next several weeks, when the melt season comes to a close.
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8/25/2008
Iceland, an island nation hugging the Arctic Circle, may share similarities with ancient Mars. So it’s a perfect place to figure out why different instruments on different Mars missions sometimes tell different stories.
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8/20/2008
Researchers monitoring daily satellite images here of Greenland’s glaciers have discovered break-ups at two of the largest glaciers in the last month.
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8/19/2008
In testimony before both houses of Congress, Mead Treadwell, U.S. ARC chair, encouraged the United States to prepare for significantly greater shipping in the Arctic Ocean, which is rapidly becoming more accessible.
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8/19/2008
New research finds that coal burning, primarily in North America and Europe, contaminated the Arctic and potentially affected human health and ecosystems in and around Earth's polar regions.
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8/19/2008
This letter, in .pdf format, describes the projected effects on support for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Antarctic research seasons. The measures were discussed at the Aug. 12, 2008 National Science Board meeting.
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8/13/2008
"The Arctic is strategically important to the United States. The state of Alaska is a valued part of our national heritage..." A review of federal Arctic Policy.
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8/13/2008
President George W. Bush has named University of Alaska Fairbanks Vice Chancellor for Research Virgil "Buck" Sharpton as one of three new members of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
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8/12/2008
Scientists have linked a dramatic year-to-year temperature swings and a century-long warming trend across West Antarctica to conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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8/8/2008
The Ecological Society of America presented the award to F. Stuart "Terry" Chapin III of the Institute of Arctic Biology for a paper on policy strategies to sustain Alaskan forests in the face of climate change. NSF and USDA funded the work.
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