A NASA team found signs of the remnants of Camp Century, which shows the extent of Washington’s longtime involvement in the ...

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The initial results and observations from preliminary field experiments are inconclusive but encouraging. For example, the ...

The ripple effects could be enormous. Scientists make unexpected discovery after studying waters under Arctic ice — here's ...

New opportunities for fishing off the west coast of Greenland are being opened up by climate change, University of ...

The June–July–August sea ice concentration in the Arctic is projected to decline under future warming scenarios. The intergovernmental panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report ...

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Already, he said, there is a replacement in coastal waters near Antarctica, where diatoms (adapted to the wide range of colors under ... Arctic Ocean as a result of warming. Less extensive, the ...

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Antarctica is also home to over 400 subglacial lakes. The largest, Lake Vostok, lies under 2.5 miles (4 km) of ice near Russia's Vostok Station. "And what's in there? Probably microbes," Klages said.