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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 103, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn April 2009, the United States hosted the thirty-second Consultative Meeting of the Antarctic Treaty parties (1) in Baltimore, Maryland. Participants in the Consultative Meeting included about four hundred diplomats,...
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From:Science (Vol. 293, Issue 5536) Peer-ReviewedSeveral small ice shelves around the Antarctic Peninsula retreated during the late 20th century due to regional climate warming. Did similar retreats occur through natural climate variability during the past 10,000...
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From:The Futurist (Vol. 36, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThough scientists and government leaders have become increasingly concerned about global warming, Antarctica appears to have cooled during the last 35 years, according to researchers at the U.S. National Science...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 4)ISBN 0-7368-1415-9. LC 2001007902. GRAF, Mike. Africa. ISBN 0-7368-1414-0. LC 2001008427. ea vol: 24p. (Continents Series). maps. photos. further reading. glossary. index. Web sites. CIP. Capstone/Bridgestone....
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From:Science (Vol. 298, Issue 5596) Peer-ReviewedMomentum builds for a European Research Council as the European Union prepares to launch its next 5-year plan for applied research and training Bernhard Stauffer, a physicist at the University of Bern, Switzerland,...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 45, Issue 33)New Zealand's University of Canterbury has introduced a new graduate program focusing on the study of Antarctica. The interdisciplinary curricula includes traditional polar sciences, but also offers a field trip to the...
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From:Science (Vol. 234) Peer-ReviewedRESEARCHERS keeping an eye on the temporary thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica this austral spring could take some comfort. This spring's hole, as the thinning is popularly known, is no larger in extent than...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 76, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDid you ever want to know more about Antarctica and the latest NASA research being conducted there? Are your textbooks lacking high-quality images and information about Antarctica? If you answered yes to either of these...
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From:Science (Vol. 291, Issue 5501) Peer-Reviewed
Timing of Millennial-Scale Climate Change in Antarctica and Greenland During the Last Glacial Period
A precise relative chronology for Greenland and West Antarctic paleotemperature is extended to 90,000 years ago, based on correlation of atmospheric methane records from the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 and Byrd ice... -
From:Science (Vol. 296, Issue 5569) Peer-ReviewedClimate variability in the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere (SH) is dominated by the SH annular mode, a large-scale pattern of variability characterized by fluctuations in the strength of the circumpolar vortex. We...
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From:BioScience (Vol. 58, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedColorado State University soil biologist Diana Wall has been working in Antarctica since 1989 and says her excitement has never waned. "We fly into the Dry Valleys in a helicopter, and when you land, there is this vast...
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From:Nature (Vol. 464, Issue 7288) Peer-ReviewedAtmos. Chem. Phys. 10, 2457-2465 (2010) During the summer, ship emissions are the primary anthropogenic source of ground-level sulphur pollution in parts of Antarctica. This is due, in large part, to growing tourism...
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From:Oceanus (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen you get off the plane at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, you realize what people mean by the White Continent. You, your 60 fellow passengers, and the C-17 jet that brought you here are resting on 10 feet of fresh,...
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From:Nature (Vol. 520, Issue 7545) Peer-ReviewedThe floating parts of Antarctica's ice sheets have been thinning at increasing rates since the mid-1990s, raising fears of ice-sheet collapse and of accelerating sea-level rise in a warming climate. Fernando Paolo of...
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From:Science and Children (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA U.S.-led, international team of scientists has not only verified the existence of a mountain range that is suspected to have caused the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet to form, but also has created a detailed picture...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 8)TULLOCH, Coral. Antarctica: The Heart of the World. illus, by author. 45p. diags. maps. photos, index. Enchanted Lion. 2006. Tr $17.95. ISBN 1-59270-054-3. LC number unavailable. Gr 6-9--This slim volume packs a lot...
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From:Mercator's World (Vol. 6, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedIt was the last prize in polar exploration: crossing the Antarctic on foot. Though he failed in this endeavor on the expedition he led in 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton achieved something much more remarkable -- the safe...
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From:Arctic (Vol. 54, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAINA's Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS) is working on a contract from the Canadian Polar Commission to select, index, and gather statistics on papers about northern Canada and papers about the...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAs part of the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957-58, a network of scientific stations was set up throughout Antarctica. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, established in November 1956 within 1,000 yards...