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A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past climate and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that extends back 68,000 years...

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According to a Johns Hopkins earth scientist, the hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has caused changes in the way that waters in those southern oceans mix--a situation that has the potential to alter the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere and eventually could have an impact on global climate change....

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Officials with the U.S. Antarctic Program (USAP) and Antarctica New Zealand have jointly decided to recall search-and-rescue teams from the site of an Antarctic aircraft crash after examination of the plane indicated that it would be unsafe at this point to further disturb the wreckage...

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Statement by Kelly K. Falkner, director of NSF's Division of Polar Programs ...

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In a first-of-its-kind feat of science and engineering, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team has successfully drilled through 800 meters (2,600 feet) of Antarctic ice to reach a subglacial lake and retrieve water and sediment samples...

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The wreckage of a Twin Otter aircraft that was reported missing earlier this week in Antarctica has been found in a remote and mountainous area of the continent ...

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• Magical Realism: WISSARD Project Poised to Explore Subglacial Lake Whillans
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• Blue Ribbon Panel Recommends Logistical Improvements to Support Antarctic Science
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• Remote Siberian Lake Holds Clues to Arctic--and Antarctic--Climate Change
• Ancient Global Warming Allowed Greening of Antarctica
• LARISSA Project Studies Ecosystem Changes Since Larsen Ice Shelf Collapse
• Scientists Determined First-ever Census for Emperor Penguins
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• NSF Funds RAPID Grants to Study Effects from New Zealand, Japan Earthquakes
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• University of California Irvine Studies Find Different Reasons for Global Methane Riddle
• West Antarctic Puzzles Bring Together Polar Researchers at Annual Workshop
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