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Between July 29th and August 13th parents, students, educators and polar enthusiasts can visit the www.studentsonice.com/arctic2009 Students on Ice Arctic Youth Expedition 2009 website to share all of our expedition moments. We will be posting photos, journal entries and expedition … Read more
The impacts of global warming will be particularly dramatic for the Arctic and Antarctica. In this animation, we look more closely at the consequences for the Arctic.
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These 3-micrometer-wide needle-shaped fossils of marine algae from the genus Synedropsis indicate that sea ice first formed in the Arctic Ocean at least 47.5 million years ago. (Credit: C. Stickley/University of Tromsø, Richard Pearce/National Oceanographic Centre, Southampton) Signs of ancient … Read more
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Close up of a melting glacier. A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said. (AFP/File/Jorge Vinueza) Mystery mechanism drove global warming 55 million years … Read more
