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Dramatic biological responses to global warming in the Arctic

"The Arctic as we know it may soon be a thing of the past," says Eric Post, associate professor of biology at Penn State University. Post leads a large, international team that carried out ecosystem-wide ...

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (16) | comments 7

Rapid changes in the winter climate

The Baltic Sea winter climate has changed more in the last 500 years than previously thought. Research at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that our part of the world has experienced periods of both ...

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created Aug 14, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5




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Poll: US belief in warming rises with thermometer

(AP) -- Americans' belief in global warming is on the rise, along with temperatures and surprising weather changes, according to a new university poll.

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created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 18

Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests

Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more snowfall in the autumn ...

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

NASA's Jason-1 achieves a one-decade landmark

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Dec. 7, 2001, NASA and the French Space Agency Centre Nationale d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) launched the Jason-1 satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., embarking on a planned ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Climate sensitivity to CO2 more limited than extreme projections: research

A new study suggests that the rate of global warming from doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire estimates of some previous studies – and, in fact, may be less severe than projected by ...

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created Nov 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 728 | with audio podcast

Interactive map of sea level changes launched

A new interactive map that allows users to explore changes in sea level worldwide over five decades has been launched by the UK's Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL).

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Arctic ice nears record low

A new record low could soon be set for ice in the Arctic. The past five years have seen the lowest extent of sea ice since satellite measurements began in the 1970s.

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Large variations in Arctic sea ice

For the last 10,000 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been far from constant. For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in The Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current ...

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created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Indian Ocean pirates impede climate observations

Australian scientists have sought the help of the United States and Australian navies to plug a critical gap in their Argo ocean and climate monitoring program caused by Somali pirates operating in the western ...

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created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Greenland ice melts most in half-century: US

Greenland's ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year, US government scientists said Tuesday in one of a series of "unmistakable" signs of climate change.

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created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 10

New CryoSat-2 satellite redraws Arctic sea-ice map

Scientists have produced the most extensive map of Arctic sea-ice thickness yet using just two months' worth of data from the European Space Agency's ice mission, CryoSat-2.

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created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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