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Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years

Interestingly, the loss of ice from the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) took place not only during the warm Holocene period, but also during a period…

NASA completes survey flights to map Arctic ice

“This campaign achieved most of our primary objectives in surveying the state of Arctic ice,” said IceBridge's acting project scientist Joe MacGregor. “We've…

Lost at sea: Far off the coast, Thioglobus perditus lives off its reserve pack

The SUP05 bacterial population puzzles researchers. Why, for example, are these microbes found in the open ocean, even though there is no basis for life for…

A new giant virus found in the waters of Oahu, Hawaii

“Most people are familiar with viruses,” said Christopher Schvarcz, the UH Mānoa oceanography graduate student who led the project as part of his doctoral…

Arctic Survivalists

They form the basis of the Arctic food web – and are extremely tough: even when the water becomes more acidic and the available light or temperatures change,…

600 seismographs listen in on the Alps

Buried in a meadow, hidden in a barn and anchored at the bottom of the Mediterranean: 600 sensors placed on and around the Alps constitute the largest academic…

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