Life thrives at searing sea vent, under ice-report
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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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For an imaginary point in the midst of an ice-capped sea, the North Pole is a surprisingly hot piece of real estate.
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An accelerating thaw of the Arctic may open vast regions for oil and gas exploration but that brings worries of spills in the fragile environment, experts said Thursday.
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There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too
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A comprehensive four-year study of warming in the Arctic shows that heat-trapping gases from tailpipes and smokestacks around the world are contributing to profound environmental changes
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Science & environment: Giant sea creatures have been found by Australian scientists in the deep waters around Antarctica
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Researchers plant a tracking beacon on a two-billion-tonne block of ice floating off the Canadian Arctic coast.
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An international team of scientists has found life on a Norwegian island.  No surprises there, but the successful field test of a collection of life-detection instruments may be a stepping stone for future endeavors to sniff out life on Mars.
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Spindly orange sea stars, fan-finned ice fish and herds of roving sea cucumbers are among the exotic creatures spied off the Antarctic coast in an area formerly covered by ice, scientists reported on Sunday.
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New mapping data could bolster any claims the U.S. might make in the Arctic as nations in the region compete for potentially rich reserves of oil, gas and minerals buried beneath the sea floor, federal scientists said Monday.
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To be perched under pollution-free, open skies on the Antarctic Plateau 3.2 kilometers (10,400 feet) above sea level is a professional stargazer's dream come true, even if the cold is deep enough to freeze your blood.
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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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Lake Vostok, an Antarctic freshwater lake buried by 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) of ice, may host a diverse community of microbial life-forms, scientists say.
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By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID  WASHINGTON - Peering deep into the sea, scientists are finding creatures more mysterious than many could have imagined. At one site, nearly 2 miles deep in the Atlantic, shrimp were living around a vent that was releasing water heated to 765 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Vents on Alaska's Fourpeaked Mountain have been spewing volcanic gases and experts at the Alaska Volcano Observatory say an eruption is possible.
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Ice cores drilled from deep beneath the floor of the Arctic Ocean show it was once warm enough for swimming.
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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.