In the summer of 2000, the Mars Society, a group of scientists, engineers and astronauts, will open its Mars Arctic research station in the Canadian high Arctic.
Professor JOHN WILLIAMS (Geography, University of Wisconsin): Our analyses suggests at places such as regions around the Arctic or high elevation regions such as the Peruvian Andes or the East African Highlands such as Mt.
Serosurvey for Toxoplasma gondii in arctic foxes and possible sources of infection in the high Arctic of Svalbard.
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Scientists have found a novel way to unravel the mysteries of a fjord in the high Arctic.
Furthermore, the pattern of warming globally doesn't resemble the pattern of urbanisation, with the greatest warming seen in the Arctic and northern high latitudes.
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Some of the longest-distance migrants on Earth are various sandpipers, plovers and other shorebirds, many of which winter as far south as Patagonia and breed as far north as the high arctic.
Summer temperatures in the high arctic would have to have been as much as 12 degrees warmer than they were in our pre-global warming world in order to support a forest there.
However, these discoveries often are regions not very hospitable, such as an Arctic climate or areas with a high political risk.
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They come from a group from the University of Alberta, who were exploring an area around the Teardrop Glacier, high in the Canadian Arctic.
Alex Wolfe and colleagues have sampled and chemically analysed the layers of sediments at the bottom of lakes in high alpine zones and the Arctic.
According to the Centre for High North Logistics, an Arctic-focused information center based in Kirkenes, Norway, 46 vessels used the NSR in 2012, carrying about 1.26 million tons of cargo.
But, chiefly because of the high cost of operating in the Arctic, their development has been slow.
The warming of high-latitude North America and the adjacent Arctic Ocean is the largest of any on the planet.
In 2012, monitoring stations in the Arctic measured 400 parts per million, but this is a new high at Mauna Loa.
An article in the Journal of Geophysical Research, published by the American Geophysical Union, says the Arctic damage threatens to "allow the penetration of enhanced UV radiation at northern mid-high latitudes".
Moreover, by calling for the offshore ban to be lifted, McCain can claim to be doing something to stem high energy prices without going so far as to call for drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--something Bush also urged Wednesday.
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