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CU-Boulder team forcasts 92 percent chance of record low Arctic sea ice extent in 2007

The researchers, who forecast in April a 33 percent chance the September minimum of sea ice would set a new record, dramatically revised their prediction…

Ocean ‘supergyre’ link to climate regulator

The new research confirms the current sweeping out of the Tasman Sea past Tasmania and towards the South Atlantic is a previously undetected component of the…

1 of deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate

More than a mile beneath the Atlantic’s surface, roughly halfway between New York and Portugal, seawater rushing through the narrow gullies of an underwater…

Keeping the Earth's plates oiled

Scientists think that the secret lies beneath the crust, in the slippery asthenosphere. In order for the mantle to convect and the plates to slide they require…

Undersea mission aids development of self-test for stress and fatigue

“On exploration missions, quick, self tests could allow astronauts to assess how they are functioning from a cognitive performance standpoint as it relates to…

What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth

Payne, a paleobiologist who joined the Stanford faculty in 2005, studies the Permian-Triassic extinction and the following 4 million years of instability in…

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