|
12/23/2008
Through the NSF-funded PolarTREC program, Wood, from Talbert Middle School in Huntington Beach, Calif. is part of a team from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology working at the volcano's summit. Read his journals.
|
|
12/22/2008
NSF's Office of Polar Programs has signed cooperative agreements that create two new entities to support, advise and conduct ice coring and drilling used in polar research.
|
|
12/19/2008
The U.S. will host the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Baltimore, MD in April. The annual diplomatic event will include nearly 400 diplomats as well as Antarctic program managers and logistics experts and scientists from 47 countries.
|
|
12/19/2008
The U.S. could suffer the effects of abrupt climate changes within decades, says a new report. It contends that, among other effects, seas could rise rapidly if melting of polar ice continues to outrun recent projections.
|
|
12/18/2008
A convoy of trucks has set out for a frozen lake 62 miles north of the Arctic Circle to deliver drilling equipment for a study of sediment and meteorite-impact rocks that should provide the oldest Arctic climate record ever collected.
|
|
12/17/2008
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to list one penguin species as endangered and five penguin species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
|
|
12/15/2008
NSF-funded, Ohio State University researchers watching the loss of ice flowing out from the giant island of Greenland say that the amount of ice lost this summer is nearly three times what was lost one year ago.
|
|
12/15/2008
As ice melts away from Antarctica, parts of the continental bedrock are rising in response -- and other parts are sinking, scientists at Ohio State University have discovered.
|
|
12/12/2008
An interdisciplinary group of scientists led by Donald “Skip” Walker of the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has strongly linked sea-ice changes to changes in Arctic land temperatures and greening of the tundra.
|
|
12/11/2008
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized a Special Rule under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) providing for the conservation of the polar bear. The rule can be viewed at: http://alaska.fws.gov/pdf/pb4d.pdf.
|
|
|