Countries need to work together to ensure Antarctic research continues and key questions on the region are answered, researchers say.
Environment
Aug 6, 2014
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Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole in December of 1911. More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists led by Joe McConnell of Nevada's Desert Research Institute ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 28, 2014
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New research shows projected changes in the winds circling the Antarctic may accelerate global sea level rise significantly more than previously estimated.
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2014
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A team of scientists led by Michael Sigl and Joe McConnell of Nevada's Desert Research Institute (DRI) has completed the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of historic volcanic sulfate emissions in the Southern ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2014
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Antarctic scientists warned Wednesday that a surge in tourists visiting the frozen continent and new roads and runways built to service research facilities were threatening its fragile environment.
Environment
Jun 18, 2014
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The paleoclimate record for the last ice age—a time 21,000 years ago called the "Last Glacial Maximum" (LGM)—tells of a cold Earth whose northern continents were covered by vast ice sheets. Chemical traces from plankton ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 2, 2014
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At the surface, Antarctica is a motionless and frozen landscape. Yet hundreds of miles down the Earth is moving at a rapid rate, new research has shown.
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2014
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New Australian National University-led research has explained why Antarctica is not warming as much as other continents, and why southern Australia is recording more droughts.
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2014
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Polar scientists said Thursday they had successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how the planet's climate has evolved.
Earth Sciences
May 8, 2014
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An international team of researchers has, for the first time, identified an avian influenza virus in a group of Adélie penguins from Antarctica. The virus, found to be unlike any other circulating avian flu, is described ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 6, 2014
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