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Arctic Sea Ice Low, Reaching Missing Record Only

The region has the lowest amount of sea ice as a result of the “crazy year” in the Arctic, scientists said Monday. Researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center said the minimum probability was reached on Sept. 15, with 1.44 million square miles of ocean in ice. Since …

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Melting Arctic ice does not raise sea levels, so do we care?

Paris (AFP) U.S. Government scientists reported Monday that the Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has reached its second-lowest level since satellite records began in 1979. So far this month, the Earth’s stationary skull cap has covered less than four million square kilometers (1.5 million square miles) only once in the last …

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In the Burning Sands of Desert, Shrimp

Not sure if the shrimp is a new species, Dr. Rajei told Martin Schwentner, lead author of the paper and a researcher at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, who studies similar crustaceans in Australia. When Dr. Schwartner compared the genetics and morphology of shrimp with the four known species …

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