LiveScience Topics: Arctic

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  Extremophile Hunter Searches for 'Impossible' Life

  The search is on for extremophiles, living things that thrive where life would seem to be impossible -- from the glaciers of the Alaskan arctic, to the ice sheets of Antarctica, that may provide insights about life elsewhere in cosmos.

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  Permafrost Could Be Climate's Ticking Time Bomb

  A professor extracts Arctic soil and water samples in search of clues to the melting of permafrost, which could be key to global warming.

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  Arctic Blob Mystery Solved

  A mystery blob in the Arctic sea first described as "thick and dark and gooey" is indeed biological.

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  Sea Ice Lowest in 800 Years

  Sea Ice is at its lowest level in 800 years

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  Ancient Creatures Survived Arctic Winters

  Prehistoric Arctic mammals didn't migrate, fossils show; implications for ancient animal dispersals.

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  "Take AIM at Climate Change" - Music Video

  AIM = Adapt Innovate Mitigate. What happens at Earth's poles will rock your world. From POLAR-PALOOZA, a multimedia initiative with NSF & NASA support.

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  At Least 3 Endangered Whales Found Off Tip of Greenland

  Underwater microphones locate endangered whales in region where were thought extinct.

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  Really Cold War Looms Over Arctic Oil

  Scenario: Desperate for the oil, nations begin to fight in 2020.

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  Dinosaurs Lived in the Arctic

  And they weren't lost wanderers, either.

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  Walking Seal Called Missing Link in Evolution

  Skeleton of primitive pinniped could be missing link between land animals and modern seals.

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  Earth Checkup: 10 Health Status Signs

  A look at how Earth is fairing and what progress has been made to cure its ills.

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  Rivers Losing Water Due to Climate Change

  Climate change causing many rivers to lose water and a few to gain it.

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  Mars Sprinkled with Salty Mysteries

  Detection of perchlorate by Phoenix lander has implications for water, ice, life on Mars.

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  Erosion Rate Doubles on Stretch of Alaskan Coast

  Erosion of a stretch of Alaska's coast surged in recent years to more than double the average historical rate.

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  Same Species Found at Both Ends of Earth

  Scientists have determined that at least 235 species live in both polar seas.

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  While U.S. in Big Chill, Arctic Runs Fever

  Despite an unusually chilly winter in the United States, Arctic is warm, continuing trend of dwindling sea ice.

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  Tropical Turtle Fossil Found in Arctic

  The last place scientists expected to find the fossil of a freshwater, tropical turtle was in the Arctic. But they did.

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  Amazing Mars: Discoveries in 2008

  Phoenix, MRO, and rovers studied Mars' surface looking for signs of water and potential habitability.

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  Reindeer Could Remain on the Run

  Caribou, aka reindeer, could soon become endangered by threats such as oil exploration and climate change.

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  Goose Eggs Could Save Polar Bears

  A new study finds that a rebounding goose population could provide eggs to feed some polar bears whose icy habitat is melting.

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  Buried Glaciers Found on Mars

  Orbiter radar reveals glaciers concealed under mid-latitude debris flows on Mars.