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Hole In Antarctic Ozone Layer May Be On The Mend
2013-02-09 22:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: According to satellite data, the most recent hole in the ozone layer measured over Antarctica was the smallest it has been in ten years. Other long-term research studies also indicate that the Earth`s ozone layer seems to be on the mend thanks to international agreements to protect this vital layer of the atmosphere. Continuing the work started by ERS-2 and Envisat satellites, imaging from the European Space Agencys (ESA) MetOp weather satellite showed the yearly hole over Antarctica to be at...
Halley VI and other Antarctic research stations in pictures
2013-02-09 13:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The British Antarctic Survey's new research station at Halley Bay is a portable pod structure that uses scent, colour and curves to take the edge off the world's longest winter
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Antarctic Adelie Penguins Learn To Cope With Climate Change
2013-02-08 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Researchers studying Adélie penguins say that the Antarctic birds are actually coping with climate change, for now. A team set out with a five-year NSF grant to conduct research on how penguin populations cope with climate change, and on how individual birds cope. During the expedition, they wanted to know why some penguins succeed in coping with climate change, while others do not. Researchers say that paying close attention to successfully breeding penguins can offer up clues to scientists...
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Scientists Find Life in the Cold and Dark Under Antarctic Ice
2013-02-06 19:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: For the first time, scientists report, they have found bacteria living in the cold and dark deep under the Antarctic ice, a discovery that might advance knowledge of how life could survive on other planets or moons and that offers the first glimpse of a vast ecosystem of microscopic life in underground lakes in Antarctica. A network of hundreds of lakes lies sandwiched between the continents land and the ice that covers it, and scientists had thought that it could harbor life. The discovery is...
UK Antarctic base up and running
2013-02-06 08:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Britain's new Halley research station in the Antarctic goes into full operation this month. The base sits on the Brunt Ice Shelf, and is the sixth such UK facility to be erected at this location since 1957. Together with Rothera on the Antarctic Peninsula, it will spearhead UK science on the White Continent. Halley gathers important weather and climate data, and it played a critical role in the research that identified the ozone "hole" in 1985. In recent years, Halley has also become...
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