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Go With the Floe
Russian researchers abandon shrinking ice floe |
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15 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 3:33 PM on 15 Jul 2008 Russian scientists are evacuating early from their research base on a shrinking Arctic ice floe. Last April, the floe was sturdy enough to build an air strip on. In September, 21 researchers and two dogs arrived, at which point their ice abode measured 1.2 by 2.5 miles. The researchers meant to leave in late August, but will evacuate this week from a floe that has shrunk to a mere 1,000 by 2,000 fee ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, climate, climate change impacts, news, Russia, scientific research (all these topics) |
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Siberian Tusky
Siberian permafrost melt threatens to accelerate climate change, reveals mammoth bones |
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19 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 6:23 AM on 19 Sep 2007 Some large sections of permafrost in Siberia have been thawing out in the last few years due to climate change. If the thaw continues apace (or speeds up) researchers worry that much more organic matter -- leftover plant and animal leavings from thousands of years ago, like mammoth dung, that never fully decayed due to sustained below-freezing temperatures -- wi ... |
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| Topics: climate change impacts, news, Russia (all these topics) |
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The Polar Excise
U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate |
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16 Apr 2007 |
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| The Polar Excise U.S. Interior edited document relating climate change to polar-bear fate Remember when U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced that the agency would propose listing polar bears under the Endangered Species Act? And he said that, while the bears' home was indeed melting, "that whole aspect of climate change is beyon ... |
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| Topics: climate, climate change impacts, climate science, Department of Interior, endangered species, news, Russia (all these topics) |
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