Researchers probe Southern Ocean's icy depths
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Here be monsters, me biodiverse buckaroos Researchers from Australia, France and Japan have returned to port from the Southern Ocean following a two-month jaunt to probe the icy depths, which yielded some impressive footage of the abyss as well as a range of hitherto-unknown Antarctic sea monsters.â¦
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID WASHINGTON - Icebergs that break off Antarctica and drift away turn out to be hotspots of life in the cold southern ocean, researchers report.
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Are we really heading for an ice-free Arctic? More than 50,000 researchers hope to find an answer during a massive study of how global warming and other phenomena are changing the coldest parts of the Earth &#151; and what that means for the rest of it.
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Foreign Corresp. European scientists have recovered ice which is 900,000-years-old, the oldest ever found, in the Antarctic during research into the continent's climate.
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Researchers are undertaking a mammoth effort to observe oceanic life using fiber optics and the Internet.
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A team of scientists has just set off to explore a strange lake in Antarctica, which may be home to exotic forms of microscopic life.
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Marine creatures are thriving by a record hot volcanic vent in the Atlantic and in dark waters under thick Antarctic ice, boosting theories that planets other than Earth are suitable for life, scientists said on Sunday.
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Krill, the heart of the rich Antarctic food chain that nourishes whales, seals and penguins, have declined by more than 80 percent in the past 25 years in key ocean regions, according to a new study that links the loss to warming temperatures.
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A study on a 15 million-year-old underground Antarctic lake could yield clues on the origins of life.
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PARIS, Aug 19 (IPS) - Over the next two years a team of scientists aboard  the French schooner "Tara" will sail the Arctic Ocean to  study the consequences of global climate change in the polar ice  environment.
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Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that&#39;s
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Scientists analysing data captured by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft as it swept past Saturn&#39;s moon Titan, have described a cold landscape carved by winds and perhaps puddled with organic lakes.
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By EASTON, Paul  NEW ZEALAND scientists have met at the University of Otago to explore the threat more acidic oceans might pose to the health of marine life.
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Large colonies of micro-organisms living under rocks have been discovered in the most hostile and extreme regions of the Arctic and Antarctic - giving new insights on survival of life on other planets.
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Some of Antarctica's glaciers are melting faster than snow can replace them, enough to raise sea levels measurably, scientists reported on Friday.
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Arctic sea ice in winter is melting far faster than before, two new NASA studies reported Wednesday, a new and alarming trend that researchers say threatens the ocean's delicate ecosystem.
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Ice is sliding off the Antarctic continent much faster than it did during the 1990s, several teams of researchers have found. On the Antarctic Peninsula that sticks out from the western side of the continent