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Daily - Tundra news (www.sciencedaily.com)
- Arctic seabirds adapt to climate change
- Bird color variations speed up evolution
- A 'cousin' of the giant panda lived in what is now Zaragoza, Spain
- Geologists map prehistoric climate changes in Canada's Yukon Territory
- Arctic sea-ice loss didn't happen by chance
- Study finds surprising Arctic methane emission source
- Northern Canada feels the heat: Climate change impact on permafrost zones
- Polar bears evolutionarily five times older and genetically more distinct: Ancestry traced back 600,000 years
- Duck-billed dinosaurs endured long, dark polar winters
- Why letting salmon escape could benefit bears and fishers
- Long-term studies detect effects of disappearing snow and ice
- New mechanism of past global warming? Thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to global warming events
- Vegetation cover affects the speed of snowmelt in tundra regions
- New report on the state of polar regions
- Good news for Norwegian polar bears: PCBs levels down
- Signs of thawing permafrost revealed from space
- In wild winter, citizen scientists see where and why birds traveled
- Hot zones for grizzly bear encounters mapped
- Increase in Arctic shipping is risk to marine mammals
- Unexpected crustacean diversity discovered in northern freshwater ecosystems
- Sea ice drives arctic air pollutants, NASA finds
- Thickest parts of Arctic ice cap melting faster
- Unusual weather: Arctic sea ice decline may be driving snowy winters seen in recent years in N. Hemisphere
- Even in winter, life persists in Arctic Seas
- Bird stewards increase the effectiveness of protected beaches
- Global permafrost zones in high-resolution images on Google Earth
- Research yields better seasonal climate forecasts
- Deconstructing a mystery: What caused Snowmaggedon?
- Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybugs
- Less summer Arctic sea ice cover means colder, snowier winters in Central Europe
- Arctic is already suffering the effects of a dangerous climate change
- Was the Little Ice Age triggered by massive volcanic eruptions?
- New study may answer questions about enigmatic Little Ice Age
- What do killer whales eat in the Arctic?
- Injecting sulfate particles into stratosphere won't fully offset climate change
- Low temperatures enhance ozone degradation above the Arctic
- Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests
- Two new standard reference materials for monitoring human exposure to environmental toxins
- Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening, researchers find
- Russian runoff freshening Canadian Arctic, NASA finds
- Powerful mathematical model greatly improves predictions for species facing climate change
- Climate change may happen more quickly than expected
- Abrupt permafrost thaw increases climate threat, experts say
- Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in today's climate
- Trees on tundra's border are growing faster in a hotter climate
- Duck's boon might be a turtle's bane: Overturned duck nest boxes can be death traps for turtles
- Humans and climate contributed to extinctions of large Ice Age mammals, new study finds
- From tropics to poles: Study reveals diversity of life in soils
- Polar bears ill from accumulated environmental toxins
- Genome of the brown bear sequenced; Scientists hope to learn about adaptations to climate change
- Young and thin instead of old and bulky: Researchers report on changes in Arctic sea ice after return of research vessel Polarstern
- Increasingly precise data on radiation reflected from the Arctic sea area
- Why climate models underestimated Arctic sea ice retreat: No Arctic sea ice in summer by end of century?
- Arctic sea ice continues decline, hits second-lowest level
- Polar oceans in transition
- Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss last winter
- Unprecedented Arctic ozone loss occurred last winter
- Model provides successful seasonal forecast for the fate of Arctic sea ice
- Arctic sea ice reaches minimum 2011 extent, making it second lowest in satellite record
- Arctic sea ice nears minimum extent


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