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Researchers have found the Earth's most northernmost underwater hot springs, spouting out of the seabed in the otherwise chilly waters of the Norwegian Sea. It's a veritable oasis featuring tropical-like coral and u...
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Exotic sea creatures never before seen by man. New varieties of plants and animals. Maybe even the clues to the origin of life on this planet. All that could be discovered when an international team of scientists takes a first-ever peek under the ice packs of the Arctic Ocean next month, providing the...
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A catastrophic 'superflood' following the rupture of a massive glacier-dammed lake in Canada at the end of the Ice Age probably plunged the world into centuries of climatic chaos.
That single event was likely responsible for the most dramatic climate change of the last 10,000 years, accordin...
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A warming climate has heated much of Alaska's permafrost to temperatures just below freezing and drastic changes are expected in the coming decades as that layer of frozen soil thaws, a prominent scientist said on Wednesday.
Vladimir Romanovsky, an associate professor at the University of Ala...
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A hot air balloon managed to reach The North Pole for the first time in the history of Arctic exploration on Monday.
The `Holy Russia` (Svyataya Rus) crew named their expedition "A Flight to the Summit of the Globe". It took the men 38 days to cover 980 km starting from Cape Arktichesk...
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In the first test of a new radar instrument, scientists have seen through more than a mile of Greenland ice to reveal an image of land that has been hidden for millions of years.
Ohio State University scientists and their colleagues will use what they learn from the instrument, dubbed GISMO (for Glo...
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This Envisat satellite image shows an ice-free Foxe Basin a shallow extension of the Atlantic Ocean located in the Canadian territory of Nunavut. Foxe Basin remains ice-covered for most of the year, with landfast ice (sea ice that remains attached to the coast) dominating in the north and pack ice (...
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Polarstern installs Arctic Ocean observatory EU-funded researchers have succeeded in installing a new deep-sea observatory to monitor a mud volcano in the Arctic region. The observation ward was established during the research vessel Polarstern's 24th Arctic expedition from mid-July to ear...
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Hunting Arctic Asteroid Impact With Hovercraft Two polar scientists hot on the trail of an arctic mystery have a new tool for exploration: a hovercraft, specially outfitted for week-long trips over the ice with scientific instruments and solar panels. Their quarry is a nearly 22,000 square-mile...
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New satellites could improve Arctic communications The Canadian Space Agency is studying the possibility of launching two new satellites into orbit that could improve weather information, telecommunications and internet access in the North. The CSA is conducting a concept study into the idea...
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Gifts From the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait
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Exhibition explores art of the Arctic's ancient hunters Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009, through Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010 · Princeton University Art Museum Read more
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Chinese scientists are gearing up for a trip to the North Pole in mid-July to explore the arctic.
The expedition will last six months and include research into polar meteorology, environmental monitoring and sea ice.
A team of 21 Chinese scientists will soon leave for the Yellow River Statio...
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Ancient turtle migrated from Asia to America over a tropical Arctic In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle. The find strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to North America not arou...
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The Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker NS Rossiya ("Russia") has arrived at the Severny Polyus-38 (SP-38) polar station to help the 16 scientists living there relocate to a new Arctic drift station. The SP-38 polar station was established on an 7 x 12 kilometre Arctic ice floe in the C...
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The drifting station research unit 'North Pole-35' at 81.26 north latitude, 103.30 east longitude. was set up in the Arctic on Friday. "The research unit will begin work by sending the first weather-report to the Global Weather Network" - Sergei Balyasnikov, a spokesman for the Arct...
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