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Arctic Climate More Vulnerable Than Thought, Maybe Linked to Antarctic Ice-sheet Behavior

June 21, 2012

"The polar regions are much more vulnerable to change than we thought before," say Martin Melles of the University of Cologne, Germany, Julie Brigham-Grette of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Pavel Minyuk of Russia's North-East Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute in Magadan, co-chief scientists for the international Lake El'gygytgyn Drilling Project. Full Story

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University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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