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Without its insulating ice cap, Arctic surface waters warm to as much as 5 C above average

Such superwarming of surface waters can affect how thick ice grows back in the winter, as well as its ability to withstand melting the next summer, according…

UCLA engineering researchers capture optical 'rogue waves'

Once dismissed by scientists as fanciful sailors' stories akin to sea monsters and uncharted inlands, recent observations have shown that they are a real…

Northwards to the tropics? WUN expedition establishes international collaborative initiative for Arctic research

The expedition, by the Worldwide Universities Network-sponsored Palaeo-Arctic Climates and Environments (pACE) group, is the first step in developing a major…

Gliese 581: one planet might indeed be habitable

More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago,…

Wind power explored off California's coast

A team of Stanford researchers set out to find answers in a recent study of the California coast and will present their research during a Dec. 13 poster…

Food source threatened by carbon dioxide

Dr Joint is sequencing the DNA of different ocean bacteria to find out how they will respond to an increase in carbon dioxide. “So far from one experiment we…

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