"Deep Below Antarctic Ice, Lake May Soon See Light"
"Russian scientists are on the verge of punching a hole into a vast Antarctic lake that's buried under more than two miles of ice."
Source: NPR, 02/03/2011
Antarctica & Arctic
NOAA Arctic Report Card
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's newly released Arctic Report Card update indicates a "return to previous Arctic conditions is unlikely. Record temperatures across Canadian Arctic and Greenland, a reduced summer sea ice cover, record snow cover decreases and links to some Northern Hemisphere weather support this conclusion."
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"The Disappearing World of the Last of the Arctic Hunters"
The Inughuit people, who hunt marine mammals with kayaks and harpoons from the world's northernmost permanently inhabited settlements, are seeing their way of life vanish as the ice melts beneath them.
Source: UK Observer, 10/04/2010
"Massive Glacier in Sub-Antarctic Island Shrinks by a Fifth"
French scientists say satellites show a glacier on a southern Indian Ocean island shrunk dramatically in recent decades. They think global warming may be a factor.
Source: AFP, 07/23/2009
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