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Russian Drill Nears 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake
After 20 years of drilling, a team of Russian researchers is close to breaching the prehistoric Lake Vostok, which has been trapped deep beneath Antarctica for the last 14 million years.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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Scientists snare 'superprawn' off New Zealand
Scientists have captured a "supergiant" crustacean in waters seven kilometres (4.5 miles) deep off New Zealand, measuring 10 times the normal size of related species.
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Google Earth ocean terrain receives major update
Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Global extinction: Gradual doom is just as bad as abrupt
A painstakingly detailed investigation shows that mass extinctions need not be sudden events. The deadliest mass extinction of all took a long time to kill 90 percent of Earth's marine life, ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Stunning Photo Shows Growing Antarctic Ice Rift
This ice plain is breaking up and a new iceberg will be born.
Fri 3 Feb 12 from SPACE.com
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Sediments from the Enol lake reveal more than 13,500 years of environmental history
A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that started 11,600 years ago, did not have ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Science behind the big freeze: is climate change bringing the Arctic to Europe?
The bitterly cold weather sweeping Britain and the rest of Europe has been linked by scientists with the ice-free seas of the Arctic, where global warming is exerting its greatest influence.
19 hours ago from The Independent
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Coral growth in Western Australia found to be thriving in warmer water
(PhysOrg.com) -- As most people are well aware, global warming isn’t just about the atmosphere, it’s about rising ocean temperatures as well. And like increases in the atmosphere, ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Humble moss 'brought on ice ages'
Research shows that primitive moss-like plants could have helped cool the Earth 470 million years ago, bringing on both life as we know it an mini-ice ages.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from BBC News
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Chile arrest in glacier ice theft
Police in Chile arrest a man suspected of stealing blocks of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier.
Wed 1 Feb 12 from BBC News
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