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Earliest satellite ice maps produced
Moscow :: Russia | 28 days ago
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Nimbus-1 archive to produce the September 1964 maps of Arctic (L) and Antarctic (R) sea-ice extent The earliest satellite maps of Arctic and Antarctic sea-ice have been assembled by scientists. They were made using data from Nasa's Nimbus-1
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Science 'javelins' spear big glacier
Vienna :: Austria | 1 month ago
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Science 'javelins' spear Pine Island Glacier Science correspondent, BBC News, Vienna The javelin's tail sticks vertically out of the snow/ice surface, ensuring good communications UK scientists have developed an air-dropped projectile to put
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Halley VI research station, Antarctica – review
Cape Town :: South Africa | 3 months ago
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Part sophisticated technology, part grunting effort that the builders of the pyramids would have recognised': the new eight-pod home of the British Antarctic Survey's Halley VI. Photograph: Ant Dubber " How's the weather? " I ask Pat Power, base
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A future Antarctic research station that can walk over the ice
Beirut :: Lebanon | 4 months ago
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The ice moves toward the ocean at a rate of a quarter mile each year. Not only that, ice and snow quickly accumulates on the surface of the frozen continent, burying any structure that dares to defy the elements. Combined, these factors basically
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Antarctic lake project called off
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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An ambitious mission to drill through 3km (1.8 miles) of Antarctic ice to a lake that has been sealed off for thousands of years has been cut short. The team at Lake Ellsworth decided to call off the mission in the early hours of Christmas Day UK
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Antarctic lake drilling is halted
New York :: NY :: USA | 5 months ago
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Stories A British attempt to search for life in an ancient lake beneath the Antarctic ice-sheet has run into trouble. The team has reported "a serious problem" with the main boiler used to heat the water that powers a drill. Work was halted on
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British Scientists To Explore Lost Antarctic Lake
Southampton :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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The 12-man team hopes to find lifeforms in Lake Ellsworth that have evolved in isolation to withstand the cold, lack of nutrients and total darkness. Early next week they will begin melting a 36-cm wide borehole through the ice using a unique hot-
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Research boss Wingham in trouble over British Antarctic Survey claim
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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A ship at work on the British Antarctic Survey's Census of Antarctic Marine Life. Photograph: British Antarctic Survey The research council chief who controversially tried to close down the British Antarctic Survey has been ordered to explain
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Polar research merger ruled out
Southampton :: NY :: USA | 7 months ago
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British Antarctic Survey merger plan ruled out The British Antarctic Survey operates five research stations within the continent Plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have been ruled out, the science
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Minister rules out British Antarctic Survey merger plans
Southampton :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
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I am delighted that the right decision has been made," said John Dudeney, BAS deputy director until 2006. "But the devil is in the detail. What you don't want is want is to leave a husk of BAS that only provides logistics." He said ensuring science
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