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		<title>Arctic Ice: The Shrink Goes On</title>
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Source: NSIDC
The annual late-summer meltdown of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska has commenced in earnest. While the satellite jockeys at the National Snow &#38; Ice Data Center aren&#8217;t logging alarming visions of an all-time record slush cup, it&#8217;s getting close.
&#8220;Arctic sea ice extent for the month of July was the third lowest for that month [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2009/08/06/climate-news/arctic-ice-the-shrink-goes-on-2/</link>
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		<title>Arctic Ocean ice shrinks to second lowest on record</title>
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The countdown to the annual Arctic slush cup has ended, and the realm of polar bear and ice seal has shrunk yet again. The meltback may not be as bad as last year, but it&#8217;s worse than any other season logged by the satellite record. 
How bad was it? 
The Arctic Ocean ice cap has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/09/16/climate-news/arctic-ocean-ice-shrinks-to-second-lowest-on-record/</link>
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		<title>Arctic sea ice extent plunges toward record</title>
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Summer hiatus is over. Far North Science returns to discover the sea ice of the Arctic Ocean has shriveled like an ice cube in a pitcher of lukewarm lemonade. 
The eye-in-the-sky scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center say the far north&#8217;s frozen cover &#8212; the Earth&#8217;s air conditioner &#8212; now covers the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/08/27/climate-news/arctic-sea-ice-extent-plunges-toward-record/</link>
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		<title>Bad desert air and a glacier that licks a river</title>
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Atmospheric scientist Cathy Cahill points to two
recent air samples from Baghdad, one showing
dust and the other fine trapped particles from
burned diesel fuel. Photo by Ned Rozell

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/28/ak-sci-forum/bad-desert-air-and-a-glacier-that-licks-a-river/</link>
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		<title>The latest word on Alaska birds</title>
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A barred owl in Juneau. Unknown in Alaska
before the late 1970s, barred owls are now
the second most-abundant owl in Southeast.
Photo by Paul Suchanek.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/15/ak-sci-forum/the-latest-word-on-alaska-birds/</link>
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		<title>Filling in the Alaska Permafrost Map</title>
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Kenji Yoshikawa drills a hole to monitor permafrost
in the Seward Peninsula village of Wales.
Photo by Ned Rozell

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
Fifteen days, 15 villages, more than 800 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/14/ak-sci-forum/filling-in-the-alaska-permafrost-map/</link>
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		<title>A day in the life of Kenji Yoshikawa</title>
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The Iditarod trail between the Seward Peninsula
villages of Elim and Golovin. Kenji Yoshikawa is
traveling along part of the trail to visit schools
and install permafrost boreholes.
Photo by Ned Rozell.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/04/03/ak-sci-forum/a-day-in-the-life-of-kenji-yoshikawa/</link>
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		<title>On the long trail to permafrost</title>
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A sunset over Norton Sound
as seen from the village of Stebbins.
Photo by Ned Rozell.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
STEBBINS &#8212; ”There’s no permafrost here, like there was none [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/31/ak-sci-forum/on-the-long-trail-to-permafrost/</link>
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		<title>Green, leafy invaders finding a home in Alaska</title>
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Hairy catsear is an invasive plant that is spreading into Alaska.
Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer at the institute. 
With only five roads connecting it to the outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/18/ak-sci-forum/green-leafy-invaders-finding-a-home-in-alaska/</link>
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		<title>The mystery of mammoth tusks with iron fillings</title>
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Embedded iron particles surrounded by carbonized
rings in the outer layer of a mammoth tusk from
Alaska. Inset photo shows how an object ripped
through the tusk.
Image courtesy Richard Firestone.

This column is provided as a public service by the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farnorthscience.com/2008/03/10/ak-sci-forum/the-mystery-of-mammoth-tusks-with-iron-fillings/</link>
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