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Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Patterns Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers
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Nov 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research on bacterial communities throughout six large Arctic river ecosystems reveals predictable temporal patterns, suggesting that scientists could use these communities as markers ...
Arctic river deltas may hold clues to future global climate
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May 18, 2009 |
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Scientists struggling to understand how Earth's climate will change in the next few decades have neglected a potential treasure trove of information—sediments deposited in the ocean by major Arctic rivers such as the Colville ...
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Scientists expand understanding of how river carbon impacts the Arctic Ocean
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Feb 12, 2008 |
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Arctic rivers transport huge quantities of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the Arctic Ocean. The prevailing paradigm regarding DOC in arctic rivers is that it is largely refractory, making it of little significance for ...
Linking Climate Change in Siberia and Britain
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Mar 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have for first time demonstrated a critical link between the Siberian climate and the circulation of the major current system which gives us our mild winters here in the UK. This new understanding ...
Water levels dropping in some major rivers as global climate changes
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Apr 21, 2009 |
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Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a new comprehensive study of global stream flow. The study, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research ...
Ancient turtle migrated from Asia to America over a tropical Arctic
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 01, 2009 |
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In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle. The find strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to ...
Arctic ice pack at third lowest extent since 1979: US
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Sep 18, 2009 |
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The Arctic sea ice pack thawed to its third smallest size on record during the northern hemisphere summer of 2009, US government scientists said, citing satellite images.
Arctic sea ice reaches minimum extent for 2009, third lowest ever recorded
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Sep 17, 2009 |
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The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the third-lowest recorded since satellites began measuring sea ice extent in 1979, according to the University of Colorado at Boulder's National ...
Water supply shifts as global climate changes
Jun 15, 2009 |
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Many of the world's great rivers are becoming less so. Yet in the Midwest, the wet is getting wetter. So says a study that finds global climate change shifting weather and water patterns around the planet.
Humans causing erosion comparable to world's largest rivers and glaciers
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Sep 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds that large-scale farming projects can erode the Earth's surface at rates comparable to those of the world's largest rivers and glaciers.
Arctic exploration finds large underwater mountain
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their boundaries extend farther north. For the past two ...
Studying evidence from Ice Age lakes
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Sep 03, 2007 |
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During the last Ice Age, the ice dammed enormous lakes in Russia. The drainage system was reversed several times and the rivers flowed southwards. A group of geologists is now investigating what took place when the ice melted ...
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