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Antarctic Ozone Hole to Be Healed by 2060

Courtney Lepping — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:15:04 +0000

There’s justification for the changes we’ve made in our personal lives to help the environment. The Antarctic ozone hole appears to be healing. The atmospheric chemist Susan Soloman, who was part of the recently published study on the Antarctic ozone hole, suggests that the ozone hole will heal towards the end of the century. The […]

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Bedmap2 Model Reveals Antarctic Ice’s Unknown Secrets

Mila Luleva — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 18:47:26 +0000

A new model developed by the British Antarctic Survey in collaboration with various international contributors, gives the opportunity to everyone to observe what happens beneath the ice cover in Antarctica. The model called Bedmap2, uses cartographic data, radio echo sounding measurements, satellite readings and seismic techniques. The result is a picture of a scenery that has […]

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Polar Ecosystems Affected Differently by Climate Change

Mila Luleva — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:33:01 +0000

The biodiversity of polar ecosystems in the Arctic and the Antarctic might be affected differently as temperatures raise. This is the main conclusion of a study published in the latest issue of the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series, conducted by scientists from The University of Western Australia’s Oceans Institute together with a team from the Spanish […]

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