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Revealed: the secret evidence of global warming Bush tried to hide

By On July 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Sensational headline by The Guardian newspaper? The Obama administration has unclassified over a thousand images of Arctic sea ice to aid scientists in the study of global warming and the impacts of climate change. The images are striking – see this comparison in Alaska between 2006 – 2007. The release of such [...]

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"Climate change hitting entire Arctic ecosystem, says report"

By On April 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The Guardian, 28th April 2008

Extensive climate change is now affecting every form of life in the Arctic, according to a major new assessment by international polar scientists. In the past four years, air temperatures have increased, sea ice has declined sharply, surface waters in the Arctic ocean have warmed [...]

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8 million year old bacteria from glacial ice revived

By On August 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment

An interesting article from the Falkowski lab at Rutgers university has just been released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The authors extracted bacteria and DNA from ice between 3-5 metres beneath the surface of an Antarctic glacier, and ‘resuscitated’ a strain of bacteria [...]

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