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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Antibiotics play a critical role in modern medicine. We take them to fight diseases, we give them to our pets, our food animals, even our plants. But what happens to those antibiotics after they pass through our systems? How do they affect the rest of the world? That is the question researchers from the University of Gothenburg have been asking, specifically how do these antibiotics affect the bacteria in the ocean. The research team...
AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Buyer Group International, Inc. (BYRG.PK) ("BYRG" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent dated August 1st, 2012, for a joint venture with certain equity partners and assigns of Caribou Greenland, Corp., whereby BYRG has the option to acquire up to a 40% interest in 360,000 acres near Isortoq, Greenland. "We are tremendously excited about the potential of Greenland. Not only do we feel that...
The high elevation flat surfaces characteristic of the Norwegian landscape are in geologically terms young, according to a paper in Nature Geoscience. In a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience, researchers from the University of Bergen (UiB) and ETH Zurich have demonstrated that ice sheets have extensively shaped the fjords of Norway for the last 2.8 million years. – However, the massive sediment record deposited offshore Norway during this period tells us a more complex...
John Neumann for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Sometime between 200 and 500 years ago, in the throes of a mini ice age, sea ice had become thick and stable enough for animal migration to occur between regions in far northern Europe. This sheet of ice gave arctic foxes a migration route to Iceland from previously unavailable landmasses, including present-day Russia, North America and Greenland. Scientists at Durham University reported findings highlighting the importance of sea...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The public is invited to a free lecture being held on Sept. 12 at the Library of Congress, Washington about NASA Scientist Lora Koenig's research at Earth's poles in extreme conditions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets contain 99 percent of the Earth's fresh-water ice, according to Koenig, a physical scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md....
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online More than a hundred years after Captain Robert F. Scott’s doomed expedition to the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole, his ship, the SS Terra Nova, has been discovered sunk off the coast of Greenland. Scott and his expedition team arrived at the South Pole in January 1912, only to realize he had been beaten by 33 days by a Norwegian team led by Roald Amundsen. Fraught by defeat, Scott’s entire party died on the return trip...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The summer melting season in Greenland usually lasts from June when the first puddles of meltwater appear, to September when temperatures begin to cool again. Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on August 8 this year – a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, reports Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at The City College of New York. This year,...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Despite the rapid thaw of the Greenland Ice Sheet, scientists are still far from even being able to predict its disappearance. Recent research conducted by an international team of scientists provided evidence that this is not the first time in modern history that the ice sheet has receded and then stabilized again. Research and news reports surrounding the melting of polar and sub-polar ice often has a doom and gloom tone, but the...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Satellites have revealed that Greenland's surface ice cover has melted this month more than any time in over 30 years of satellite observations. NASA said that nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland experienced some degree of melting at its surface this past month. Measurements from three independent satellites were analyzed by NASA and university scientists, who found that 97 percent of the ice sheet surface in Greenland thawed...
WASHINGTON, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its 2-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface, according to measurements from three independent satellites analyzed by NASA and university scientists. (Logo:...
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The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as the saddleback seal, is a true seal in the Phocidae family. It is native to northern areas of the Atlantic Ocean and to some areas of the Arctic Ocean. Its scientific name means "ice-lover from Greenland,” and it was previously classified within Phoca genus, although studies have shown that it is unique enough to be in a distinct genus. It holds two recognized subspecies, P. groenlandicus groenlandicus and P. groenlandicus oceanicus....
Baffin Bay, which is located between Baffin Island and the southwest coast of Greenland, is a marginal sea of the North Atlantic Ocean. It’s connected to the Atlantic by Davis Strait and the Labrador Sea. A narrower Nares Strait connects the Baffin Bay with the Arctic Ocean. The Baffin Bay is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is bordered by Baffin Island towards the west, Greenland towards the east, and Ellesmere Island towards the north. It is connected to the Atlantic through the Davis...
The muskox (Ovibos moschatus), also known as the musk ox, is native to the Arctic areas of Canada, United Sates, and Greenland. Populations have been introduced into Norway, Sweden, and Siberia, but these are small. There was a population in Antarctica, but it was wiped out due to hunting and climate change, which caused its habitat to decline. Despite this, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service introduced a new population onto Nunivak Island in Antarctica, as a means of supported...
Symbol: STGR8 Group: Lichen Family: Stereocaulaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Order Lecanorales Family Stereocaulaceae Genus Stereocaulon Hoffm. – snow lichen Species Stereocaulon groenlandicum (E. Dahl) Lamb – Greenland snow lichen
Symbol: SIGR8 Group: Monocot Family: Iridaceae Duration: Perennial Growth Habit: Forb/herb Native Status: GL N Distribution: SisyrinchiumgroenlandicumBöcher distribution:DEN(GL) Classification: Kingdom Plantae – Plants Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants Class Liliopsida –...
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