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            <description>University of Colorado</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic ocean mapping mission wraps up</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Dramatic Biological Responses to Global Warming in the Arctic</title>
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            <description>Penn State University</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Walruses congregate on Alaska shore as ice melts</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Oil Fields and Arctic Ecology</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/oil-fields-and-arctic-ecology/</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Killer whales, robins, rising seas: Climate is changing and tiny 'Tuk' mans the front line</title>
            <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-cn-climate-09-frigid-front-line,0,4348650.story</link>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>The Arctic Offers More Evidence of Human Influences on Climate Change</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=115010</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>NASA Takes You on a New Tour of the Cryosphere</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>South Pole storage: Work on new logistics facility continues through the winter</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009</title>
            <link>http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/d293a239083e3826bcc014e5df4671f7.html</link>
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            <description>University of Colorado</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists Propose Antarctic Location For 'Missing' Ice Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825151004.htm</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Map Characterizes Active Lakes Below Antarctic Ice</title>
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            <description>NASA</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>U.S. Bans Commercial Fishing in Warming Arctic</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Vantage point: Camera at South Pole to determine if its night sky is ideal for new telescope</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Searching for an interglacial on Greenland - The first season of the international ice core drilling project NEEM completed today</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>As Arctic Ocean warms, megatonnes of methane bubble up</title>
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            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Mapping Antarctica: Latest satellite imagery brings continent into high-res focus</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast'</title>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Traverse on track</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Ocean may be polluted soup by 2070</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Love Songs of Bowhead Whales: Whales Sing with 'More Than One Voice'</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090729074523.htm</link>
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            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Alaska's biggest tundra fire sparks climate warning</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17537-alaskas-biggest-tundra-fire-sparks-climate-warning.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Views on an Opening Arctic Ocean</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/views-on-an-open-water-arctic/</link>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic tundra hotter, boosts global warming: expert</title>
            <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE56S53E20090729</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>U.S. Pushes for Law of the Sea Ratification as New Arctic Mapping Project Begins</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Era of Trans-Arctic Shipping Nigh</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/era-of-trans-arctic-shipping-nigh/</link>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>New predictions for sea level rise</title>
            <link>http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6484.html</link>
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            <description>University of Bristol</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>How to make ice melt at -180 °C</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327184.900-how-to-make-ice-melt-at-180-c.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Getting a grip on Greenland's future</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8167209.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>MacGyvers of polar science: Research associates ensure experiments keep running year-round</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>New research provides insight into ice sheet behaviour</title>
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            <description>British Antarctic Survey</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska</title>
            <link>http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1911517,00.html</link>
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            <description>Time</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Signs of ancient sea ice</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Government releases spy satellite images of Arctic ice</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic glacier to lose Manhattan-sized 'tongue'</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Seals quickly respond to habitat and climate change</title>
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            <description>Durham University</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Thin Ice the Norm in Warming Arctic</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>More Polar Bear Populations in Decline</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Melting Undermines Greenland Camp</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ozone Hole Reduces Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Uptake In Southern Ocean</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>New framework to link up Europe’s polar research</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <description>University at Buffalo</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <description>University of Alaska Fairbanks</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Unstated Assumptions Color Arctic Sovereignty Claims</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528135248.htm</link>
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            <title>The Arctic's oil reserves mapped</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8073363.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Scientists Return from Expedition to Drill Beneath Frozen Russian Lake</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114885</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114885</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>NSF Announces First Major Award Under American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Alaska Region Research Vessel</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114796</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114796</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Biologists: Greening Arctic not likely to offset permafrost carbon release</title>
            <link>http://news.ufl.edu/2009/05/27/permafrost-thaw/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.ufl.edu/2009/05/27/permafrost-thaw/</guid>
            <description>University of Florida</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada</title>
            <link>http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/sealevel.jsp</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/sealevel.jsp</guid>
            <description>National Center for Atmospheric Research</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Spring Agricultural Fires Have Large Impact on Melting Arctic</title>
            <link>http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2009/may/ds26fire.cfm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.unh.edu/news/cj_nr/2009/may/ds26fire.cfm</guid>
            <description>University of New Hampshire</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
        </item>

<item>
            <title>Endangered whales discovered off Greenland coast</title>
            <link>http://www.canada.com/Technology/Endangered+whales+discovered+Greenland+coast/1625927/story.html</link>
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            <description>Canwest News Service</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>SCINI in the Sound: Robot offers new views of marine environment around McMurdo</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1779</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1779</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Probing Antarctica’s Lake Bonney</title>
            <link>http://www.astrobio.net/news/print.php?sid=3142</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.astrobio.net/news/print.php?sid=3142</guid>
            <description>Astrobiology Magazine</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Arctic research still 'business as usual' after polar year</title>
            <link>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/05/20/arctic-research-ipy.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/05/20/arctic-research-ipy.html</guid>
            <description>CBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It’s Land That’s Rising</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/science/earth/18juneau.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/science/earth/18juneau.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
        </item>

<item>
            <title>Arctic River Deltas May Hold Clues to Future Global Climate</title>
            <link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/05/15/arctic_river_deltas/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/05/15/arctic_river_deltas/</guid>
            <description>University of Texas at Austin</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
        </item>

<item>
            <title>Robots in Antarctica</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1772</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1772</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>National Science Foundation Releases Comprehensive Report on Global Impacts of Climate Change</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114811</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114811</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Study Halves Prediction of Rising Seas</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/science/earth/15antarctica.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/science/earth/15antarctica.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Obama keeps Bush polar bear rules</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8040913.stm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8040913.stm</guid>
            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
        </item>

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            <title>Pulse on Polynyas</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1769</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1769</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>McMurdo Buried: Storms dump record amounts of snow at research station in April</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1768</link>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Polar Bear Listing Defended</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/polar-bear-listing-defended/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/polar-bear-listing-defended/</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
        </item>

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            <title>Finding Feisty Fungi in Antartica</title>
            <link>http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/42960182.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/42960182.html</guid>
            <description>Smithsonian Magazine</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Eastern Arctic bowhead whales no longer threatened: federal committee</title>
            <link>http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/05/05/cosewic-listings-bowhead.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2009/05/05/cosewic-listings-bowhead.html</guid>
            <description>CBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
        </item>

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            <title>New Antarctic seabed sonar images reveal clues to sea-level rise</title>
            <link>http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=854</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=854</guid>
            <description>British Antarctic Survey</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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<item>
            <title>Mercury Levels In Arctic Seals May Be Linked To Global Warming</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504165950.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504165950.htm</guid>
            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Wilkins Ice Shelf: Break-up continues in April with loss of ice bridge, new ice bergs</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1762</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1762</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Trek to 'Break the Ice' on New NASA Airborne Radars</title>
            <link>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-20090429.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic-20090429.html</guid>
            <description>NASA</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Seaglider Monitors Climate-related Ocean Circulation in the Arctic During Record-Breaking Journey Under Ice</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114647</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114647</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>Satellite imagery shows fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf destabilised</title>
            <link>http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMRAVANJTF_index_0.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMRAVANJTF_index_0.html</guid>
            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>IPY Traverse: Overland exploration of East Antarctica collects data for last thousand years of climate</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1758</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1758</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ancient Greenland Ice Study of Methane May Be Good News for Planet, Says Study</title>
            <link>http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/4e3fb67304eb52475db0f8a256550065.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/4e3fb67304eb52475db0f8a256550065.html</guid>
            <description>University of Colorado at Boulder</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic fossil provides 'missing link' to modern seal</title>
            <link>http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Travel/Arctic+fossil+provides+missing+link+modern+seal/1522801/story.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Travel/Arctic+fossil+provides+missing+link+modern+seal/1522801/story.html</guid>
            <description>Ottawa Citizen</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Increasing Antarctic sea ice extent linked to the ozone hole</title>
            <link>http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=838</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/press/press_releases/press_release.php?id=838</guid>
            <description>British Antarctic Survey</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bionic penguins take to the water – and the skies</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16996-bionic-penguins-take-to-the-water--and-the-skies.html</link>
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            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Indigenous Peoples At World Summit To Share Climate Change Observations, Coping Techniques</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419133835.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419133835.htm</guid>
            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists deploy robotic sub, moorings to study fast-moving glacier</title>
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			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1752</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>The long view</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Microbes thrive in harsh, isolated water under Antarctic glacier</title>
            <link>http://www.harvardscience.harvard.edu/animal-vegetable-mineral/articles/microbes-thrive-harsh-isolated-water-under-antarctic-glacier</link>
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            <description>Harvard University</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Decline in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Reduce Sea-Level Rise, Save Arctic Sea Ice</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114578</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114578</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Blasting for Ice on Mars</title>
            <link>http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/410/1</link>
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            <description>ScienceNOW</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Starlight, Starbright</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Autonomous Antarctic Observatories Gather Space Weather Data</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114540</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114540</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming</title>
            <link>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_aerosols.html</guid>
            <description>NASA</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Driller thriller: Antarctica's tumultuous past revealed</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227036.400-driller-thriller-antarcticas-tumultuous-past-revealed.html</link>
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            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Wind powers Antarctica's first zero-emissions research station</title>
            <link>http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=wind-power-in-antarctica-2009-04-07</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists discover pentagonal ice</title>
            <link>http://www.liv.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2009/04/pentagonal-ice.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.liv.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2009/04/pentagonal-ice.htm</guid>
            <description>University of Liverpool</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <item>
            <title>Polar Meeting Mulls Melting, Warming</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/bipolar-meeting-focuses-on-climate-ice/</link>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Satellites Show Arctic Literally on Thin Ice</title>
            <link>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic_thinice.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/arctic_thinice.html</guid>
            <description>NASA</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Blubbery 'researchers' lend fin to climate science</title>
            <link>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090406/ap_on_re_au_an/aa_antarctic_enigma</link>
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            <description>Associated Press</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice bridge ruptures in Antarctic</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7984054.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Collapse Of The Ice Bridge Supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf Appears Imminent</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090403080827.htm</link>
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            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>IPY Legacies</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Tracking Shackleton to the pole</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7979798.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice-Free Arctic Summers Likely Sooner Than Expected</title>
            <link>http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090402_seaice.html</link>
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            <description>NOAA</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Satellite snow maps help reindeer herders adapt to a changing Arctic</title>
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            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>NASA Flies to Greenland to Extend Polar Science</title>
            <link>http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland_flights.html</link>
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            <description>NASA</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic dust layers may give climate hints</title>
            <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLR529703</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>An Arctic Circle of Friends</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28borgerson.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/opinion/28borgerson.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic meltdown is a threat to humanity</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.500-arctic-meltdown-is-a-threat-to-humanity.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20127011.500-arctic-meltdown-is-a-threat-to-humanity.html</guid>
            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Iron-Dumping Experiment Is a Bust: It Feeds Crustaceans, Doesn’t Trap Carbon</title>
            <link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/24/iron-dumping-experiment-is-a-bust-it-feeds-crustaceans-doesnt-trap-carbon/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/03/24/iron-dumping-experiment-is-a-bust-it-feeds-crustaceans-doesnt-trap-carbon/</guid>
            <description>Discover Magazine</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Crossing the icy unknown, hunting climate clues</title>
            <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032100852.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/21/AR2009032100852.html</guid>
            <description>Washington Post</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Nations Near Arctic Declare Polar Bears Threatened by Climate Change</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/science/earth/20bears.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/science/earth/20bears.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Andrill demonstrates climate warming affects Antarctic ice sheet stability</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114385</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114385</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Mars Researchers Take an Arctic Road Trip</title>
            <link>http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/4308830.html</link>
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            <description>Popular Mechanics</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>West Antarctic ice comes and goes, rapidly</title>
            <link>http://live.psu.edu/story/38345</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://live.psu.edu/story/38345</guid>
            <description>Penn State University</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>British, NSF-funded Researchers Deploy Automated Submarine to Better Understand the Mechanics of Antarctic Ice Sheets</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114381</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114381</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>From Arctic Soil, Fossils of a Goliath That Ruled the Jurassic Seas</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/science/17foss.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/science/17foss.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic and Antarctic-themed Activities to Bring a Breath of Polar Air to Baltimore</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114340</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114340</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Climate-related Changes on the Antarctic Peninsula Being Driven from the Top and the Bottom of the Ecosystem</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114377</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114377</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Subglacial waterworks</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1726</link>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Wind Shifts May Stir Carbon Dioxide From Antarctic Depths, Amplifying Global Warming</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312140842.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312140842.htm</guid>
            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Phytoplankton Changing Along the Antarctic Peninsula as Climate Warms</title>
            <link>http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2009/03/phytoplankton-is-cha-20090312</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2009/03/phytoplankton-is-cha-20090312</guid>
            <description>Rutgers University</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Witness a journey to the bottom of an ice sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16741-witness-a-journey-to-the-bottom-of-an-ice-sheet.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16741-witness-a-journey-to-the-bottom-of-an-ice-sheet.html</guid>
            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Sea level rise could bust IPCC estimate</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16732-sea-level-rise-could-bust-ipcc-estimate.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16732-sea-level-rise-could-bust-ipcc-estimate.html</guid>
            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Rise in Ocean Acidity May Lead to Thinner Plankton Shells</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10obshell.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/science/10obshell.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Storm wrecks field camp, forces early exit from Livingston Island</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1721</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contenthandler.cfm?id=1721</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ancient supernovae may be recorded in Antarctic ice</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16701-ancient-supernovae-may-be-recorded-in-antarctic-ice.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16701-ancient-supernovae-may-be-recorded-in-antarctic-ice.html</guid>
            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Explorers begin epic Arctic trek</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7917266.stm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7917266.stm</guid>
            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>CO2 Drop and Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier to Form</title>
            <link>http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6449</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opa.yale.edu/news/article.aspx?id=6449</guid>
            <description>Yale University</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Polar research reveals new evidence of global environmental change</title>
            <link>http://www.ipy.org/index.php?/ipy/detail/state_of_polar_research/</link>
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            <description>World Meteorological Organization and the International Council for Science</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>'Ghost peaks' mapped under ice</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7908824.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>U.S.-led, International Research Team Confirms Alps-like Mountain Range Exists under East Antarctic Ice Sheet</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114172</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114172</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>NASA global warming satellite crashes after launch</title>
            <link>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iXdhsfNkgwVvBi7G7FuHRALSg0GgD96I365G0</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iXdhsfNkgwVvBi7G7FuHRALSg0GgD96I365G0</guid>
            <description>Associated Press</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bubbles of warming, beneath the ice</title>
            <link>http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-global-warming22-2009feb22,0,646220.story</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-global-warming22-2009feb22,0,646220.story</guid>
            <description>Los Angeles Times</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Permafrost Is Thawing In Northern Sweden</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218081629.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090218081629.htm</guid>
            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic's personal greenhouse turns up the heat</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16623-arctics-personal-greenhouse-turns-up-the-heat.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16623-arctics-personal-greenhouse-turns-up-the-heat.html</guid>
            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Erosion Doubles Along Part of Alaska’s Arctic Coast: Cultural and Historical Sites Lost</title>
            <link>http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2141</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=2141</guid>
            <description>USGS</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Alaska Is a Frontier for Green Power</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/business/18alaska.html</link>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Marine Scientists to Assess Environment Before Offshore Drilling Begins in U.S. Arctic Waters</title>
            <link>http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/02/17/offshore_drilling/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.utexas.edu/news/2009/02/17/offshore_drilling/</guid>
            <description>University of Texas</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Cosmologists aim to observe first moments of universe</title>
            <link>http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1550</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1550</guid>
            <description>University of Chicago</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Greenland and Antarctic ice sheet melting, rate unknown</title>
            <link>http://live.psu.edu/story/37650</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://live.psu.edu/story/37650</guid>
            <description>Penn State University</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic ice fish redefines “cold-blooded”</title>
            <link>http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/02/16/antarctic-ice-fish-redefines-cold-blooded/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2009/02/16/antarctic-ice-fish-redefines-cold-blooded/</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice oceans 'are not poles apart'</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7888558.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>First carbon-free polar station opens in Antarctica</title>
            <link>http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUKLF69016120090215</link>
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            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Failing food pantry?</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1715</link>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Plumes of Arctic haze traced to Russia, Kazakhstan </title>
            <link>http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/40872/description/Plumes_of_arctic_haze_traced_to_Russia,_Kazakhstan</link>
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            <description>Science News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Too Much Hot and Cool Hype?</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/british-climate-office-criticizes-cool-and-hot-hype/?hp</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/british-climate-office-criticizes-cool-and-hot-hype/?hp</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Team will use radar to measure thinning Arctic ice</title>
            <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE51B5F920090212</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE51B5F920090212</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change</title>
            <link>http://byunews.byu.edu/archive09-FEB-antarctica.aspx</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://byunews.byu.edu/archive09-FEB-antarctica.aspx</guid>
            <description>Brigham Young University</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Saving historic sites</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1714</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/features/contentHandler.cfm?id=1714</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Auroras: What powers the greatest light show on Earth?</title>
            <link>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.800-auroras-what-powers-the-greatest-light-show-on-earth.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126941.800-auroras-what-powers-the-greatest-light-show-on-earth.html</guid>
            <description>New Scientist</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>More Extreme Weather In The Arctic Regions</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205083526.htm</link>
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            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Could Sea Level Rise to the Steps of the U.S. Capitol?</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114137</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114137</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Protecting Fish Ahead of the ‘Big Melt’</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/protecting-fish-ahead-of-the-big-melt/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/protecting-fish-ahead-of-the-big-melt/</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic 'ice park' needed: Scientists</title>
            <link>http://www.canada.com/Travel/Arctic+park+needed+Scientists/1249117/story.html</link>
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            <description>Canwest News Service</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Prescription for Arctic Melting: Clear the Air Down South</title>
            <link>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=prescription-for-arctic-melting-clear-the-air</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=prescription-for-arctic-melting-clear-the-air</guid>
            <description>Scientific American</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Pole-to-Pole Flights Provide First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases</title>
            <link>http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/hippo.jsp</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/hippo.jsp</guid>
            <description>National Center for Atmospheric Research</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Dumping Iron Into the Ocean Might Not Save the Climate, After All</title>
            <link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/01/28/dumping-iron-into-the-ocean-might-not-save-the-climate-after-all/</link>
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            <description>Discover Magazine</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Fertilizing oceans with iron might combat climate change</title>
            <link>http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=fertilizing-oceans-with-iron-might-2009-01-28</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=fertilizing-oceans-with-iron-might-2009-01-28</guid>
            <description>Scientific American</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Emperor Penguins March toward Extinction?</title>
            <link>http://tinyurl.com/atw3we</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://tinyurl.com/atw3we</guid>
            <description>Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Video Update on Tussle Over Unfreezing Arctic</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/video-update-on-tussle-over-unfreezing-arctic/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/video-update-on-tussle-over-unfreezing-arctic/</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic sea creatures hypersensitive to warming</title>
            <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50P07I20090126</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE50P07I20090126</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic Climate Researchers Hold Distant Inaugural Celebration</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Solving Avalanches’ Mysteries</title>
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            <title>Arctic Heats Up More than Other Places</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Final tests for polar explorers</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7829494.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Gallery: Visions of the ice caps before climate change</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>In Antarctica, bugs are kings</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bush Signs Off on New U.S. Arctic Policy</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>NSF, NASA Successfully Flight-Test New Balloon Over Antarctica</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists Take off on Historic Mission to Measure Greenhouse Gases That Have an Impact on Climate</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>The mystery of Antarctica's speeding glacier</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Together again</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>More polar bears going hungry</title>
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            <title>British scientists to venture into unknown beneath Antarctic glaciers</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Inside Shackleton's polar refuge</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Polar bears face uncertain future in Arctic</title>
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            <description>Ottawa Citizen</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>NSF Announces New Ice-Core Drilling Agreements for Polar Research</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists spend a white Christmas in Antarctica</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic melt 20 years ahead of climate models</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Field of dreams</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Emperor Left Out in the Cold as Other Penguins Get U.S. Protection</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Changes 'amplify Arctic warming'</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>A Cooler Year on a Warming Planet</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <description>Ohio State University</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>‘Webcam’ from Space – Envisat observing Wilkins Ice Shelf</title>
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            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Dropping off supplies</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic islands surpass Galapagos for biodiversity</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <description>Penn State University</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Unlocking Climate Mysteries and Engaging Students from Harlem to Antarctica</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Global warming greatest in past decade</title>
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            <description>Penn State University</description>
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            <title>Thawing Permafrost Likely To Boost Global Warming, New Assessment Concludes</title>
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            <title>The MacGyver solution</title>
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            <title>As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Experts Expect New Low</title>
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            <description>University of Bristol</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists Report Further Shrinking of Arctic Ice</title>
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            <title>Ottawa expands Arctic patrols</title>
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            <title>Not-So-Permafrost: Big Thaw of Arctic Soil May Unleash Runaway Warming</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Snowmelt Carved Mars Gullies Later Than Thought</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Polar Bears at Sea</title>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>A new Arctic circle</title>
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            <description>The Globe and Mail</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Coast Guard Losing Arctic Race</title>
            <link>http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/runners-on-your.html</link>
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            <title>LC-130 upgrades: National Guard looks to improve 'skibird' efficiencies and operations</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Penguins dumping arsenic in Antarctica</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Melting Arctic Ocean opens new shipping frontier</title>
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            <description>Associated Press</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Greenland Glacier Breakup Suggests Imminent Disintegration</title>
            <link>http://www.livescience.com/environment/080821-greenland-glaciers.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>RV Polarstern on its way to measurements in the East Siberian Sea</title>
            <link>http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/ark_xxiii3/?cHash=fb5fef0e88</link>
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            <description>Alfred Wegener Institute</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Herbivores eat away at climate-change predictions</title>
            <link>http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14544-herbivores-eat-away-at-climatechange-predictions.html</link>
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            <description>NewScientist</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic pipeline could threaten wildlife reserves</title>
            <link>http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=7cb68b2f-81a4-43ff-9f1d-42d082767196</link>
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            <description>Canwest News Service</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Greenland Ice Core Reveals History of Pollution in the Arctic</title>
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            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>A Push to Increase Icebreakers in the Arctic</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/world/europe/17arctic.html</link>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>S.F. Exploratorium's window on climate change</title>
            <link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/15/BAOR11LRL9.DTL</link>
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            <description>San Francisco Chronicle</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic Climate: Short-Term Spikes, Long-Term Warming Linked to Tropical Pacific</title>
            <link>http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2008/antarcticwarming.jsp</link>
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            <description>National Center for Atmospheric Research</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Rush to Arctic as warming opens oil deposits</title>
            <link>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/08/12/MN5R1290QE.DTL</link>
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            <description>San Francisco Chronicle</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Seals dive to map out Antarctica's scientific secrets in climate-change study</title>
            <link>http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/seals-dive-to-map-out-antarcticas-scientific-secrets-in-climatechange-study/1241709.aspx</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>'Unprecedented' melt sinks hope for Arctic ice recovery</title>
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            <description>Ottawa Citizen</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Abrupt climate changes during the last Ice Age – a phenomenon of extreme winters?</title>
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            <description>Alfred Wegener Institute</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Map shows dispute hotspots</title>
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            <title>Antarctic Fossils Paint a Picture of a Much Warmer Continent</title>
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            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Melting ice threatens Arctic park</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic ice bigger than 2007, but thawing long-term</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Climate Experts Tussle Over Details. Public Gets Whiplash.</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/science/earth/29clim.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Snapshot Of Past Climate Reveals No Ice In Antarctica Millions Of Years Ago</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Huge chunk snaps off storied Arctic ice shelf</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice Free</title>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Wildfires May Briefly Slow Arctic Warming, Study Says</title>
            <link>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080725-wildfires-arctic.html</link>
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            <description>National Geographic News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Mystery of Why Northern Lights "Dance" May Be Solved</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Gas and Oil Bonanza, but No Energy Fix</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists break record by finding northernmost hydrothermal vent field</title>
            <link>http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42993</link>
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            <description>University of Washington</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Fossils date Dry Valleys' origin</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>ANDRILL Core Fragments Reveal Tectonically Active Continent</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>A Single Boulder May Prove that Antarctica and North America Were Once Connected</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Interior Dept. Opens 2.6 Million Alaskan Acres for Oil Exploration</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/us/17alaska.html</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Fragile Antarctic Marine Life Pounded By Icebergs: Biodiversity Suffering</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080717140451.htm</link>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>For Toy-Like NASA Robots in Arctic, Ice Research Is Child's Play</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Greenland Losing Ice, With or Without Lubrication</title>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Without a trace</title>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Research team draws 150-meter ice core from McCall Glacier</title>
            <link>http://www.uaf.edu/news/headlines/20080710130436.html</link>
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            <description>University of Alaska Fairbanks</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Warming Spells Trouble for Fish</title>
            <link>http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/710/1</link>
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            <description>ScienceNow</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Global Warming Talks Leave Few Concrete Goals</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/science/earth/10assess.html</link>
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            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread</title>
            <link>http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM2U5THKHF_index_0.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM2U5THKHF_index_0.html</guid>
            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Embracing icebergs sing eerie duets</title>
            <link>http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14286-embracing-icebergs-sing-eerie-duets.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14286-embracing-icebergs-sing-eerie-duets.html</guid>
            <description>NewScientist</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Richest Nations Pledge to Halve Greenhouse Gas</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/science/earth/09climate.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/science/earth/09climate.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Greenland meltwater will take slow wave around globe</title>
            <link>http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14264-greenland-meltwater-will-take-slow-wave-around-globe.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14264-greenland-meltwater-will-take-slow-wave-around-globe.html</guid>
            <description>NewScientist</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>How will the Arctic sea ice cover develop this summer?</title>
            <link>http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/sea_ice_extend/</link>
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            <description>Alfred Wegener Institute</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Researchers search for clues to date Drake Passage</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1477</link>
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            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>A Tempered View of Greenland’s Gushing Drainpipes</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/a-tempered-view-of-greenlands-gushing-drainpipes/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/a-tempered-view-of-greenlands-gushing-drainpipes/</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Penguin decline indicates state of world oceans</title>
            <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/01/eapenguin101.xml</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/01/eapenguin101.xml</guid>
            <description>The Daily Telegraph</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Penguins on Mars?</title>
            <link>http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080627/full/news.2008.920.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080627/full/news.2008.920.html</guid>
            <description>Nature</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>What’s Really Up With North Pole Sea Ice?</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/whats-really-up-with-north-pole-sea-ice/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/whats-really-up-with-north-pole-sea-ice/</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Fire under the ice - International expedition discovers gigantic volcanic eruption in the Arctic Ocean</title>
            <link>http://www.awi.de/en/news/press_releases/detail/item/fire_under_the_ice_international_expedition_discovers_gigantic_volcanic_eruption_in_the_arctic_oce/</link>
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            <description>Alfred Wegener Institute</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Antarctic sticks out huge annual ice 'tongue'</title>
            <link>http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14192-antarctic-sticks-out-huge-annual-ice-tongue.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn14192-antarctic-sticks-out-huge-annual-ice-tongue.html</guid>
            <description>NewScientist</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>North Pole May Be Ice Free for First Time This Summer</title>
            <link>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080620-north-pole.html</link>
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            <description>National Geographic News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Mars probe makes 'ice discovery'</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7465419.stm</link>
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            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice Cores show abrupt climate changes</title>
            <link>http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/ice_cores_show_abrupt/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/ice_cores_show_abrupt/</guid>
            <description>Niels Bohr Institute</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Even the Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf</title>
            <link>http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMG58VG3HF_index_0.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMG58VG3HF_index_0.html</guid>
            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Moving experience</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1453</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1453</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Medical research on ice</title>
            <link>http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWK0VG3HF_index_0.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMWK0VG3HF_index_0.html</guid>
            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ozone Layer to the Rescue?</title>
            <link>http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/612/2</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/612/2</guid>
            <description>ScienceNOW Daily News</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Greenland Ice Sheet runoff may more than double by century’s end</title>
            <link>http://www.uaf.edu/news/headlines/20080611114625.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.uaf.edu/news/headlines/20080611114625.html</guid>
            <description>University of Alaska Fairbanks</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Most Experts Foresee a Repeat, at Least, of 2007 Arctic Ice Loss</title>
            <link>http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/most-experts-foresee-a-repeat-at-least-of-2007-arctic-ice-loss/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/most-experts-foresee-a-repeat-at-least-of-2007-arctic-ice-loss/</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Permafrost Threatened by Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, NCAR Study Finds</title>
            <link>http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2008/permafrost.jsp</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2008/permafrost.jsp</guid>
            <description>National Center for Atmospheric Research</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Scientists find 245 million-year-old burrows of land vertebrates in Antarctica</title>
            <link>http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42393</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=42393</guid>
            <description>University of Washington News</description>
			<pubDate>Sat, 7 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Monitoring Antarctic Ice Movement Is a Sticky Business</title>
            <link>http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=monitoring-antarctica-ice-movement-is-sticky-business</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=monitoring-antarctica-ice-movement-is-sticky-business</guid>
            <description>Scientific American</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically</title>
            <link>http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11833.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news-info.wustl.edu/tips/page/normal/11833.html</guid>
            <description>Washington University in St. Louis</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 4 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>A Survivor in Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species is Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-Old Ice</title>
            <link>http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Loveland-Curtze5-2008.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/Loveland-Curtze5-2008.htm</guid>
            <description>Penn State University</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Large-Scale Experiments Needed to Predict Global Change</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111600</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111600</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 1 Jun 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Complexities of climate change</title>
            <link>http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1438</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://antarcticsun.usap.gov/science/contenthandler.cfm?id=1438</guid>
            <description>Antarctic Sun</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>DNA Offers Clues to Greenland’s First Inhabitants</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/science/30ancestor.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/science/30ancestor.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>5 Countries Agree to Talk Over the Arctic</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/earth/29arctic.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/earth/29arctic.html</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt, Far-Reaching Climate Change</title>
            <link>http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111554</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111554</guid>
            <description>National Science Foundation</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Just how cold can the Antarctic deep seas get?</title>
            <link>http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_08_05_26_en.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_08_05_26_en.html</guid>
            <description>European Commission Research</description>
			<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Phoenix Lander Touches Down Near Mars's North Pole</title>
            <link>http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080525-phoenix-mars.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080525-phoenix-mars.html</guid>
            <description>National Geographic News</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Five Arctic powers to meet in Greenland</title>
            <link>http://news.smh.com.au/world/five-arctic-powers-to-meet-in-greenland-20080525-2hye.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.smh.com.au/world/five-arctic-powers-to-meet-in-greenland-20080525-2hye.html</guid>
            <description>AFP</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Race for Antarctic krill a test for green management</title>
            <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7538859</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/7538859</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7417123.stm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7417123.stm</guid>
            <description>BBC News</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic Drilling Wouldn't Cool High Oil Prices</title>
            <link>http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/05/23/arctic-drilling-wouldnt-cool-high-oil-prices.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/05/23/arctic-drilling-wouldnt-cool-high-oil-prices.html</guid>
            <description>US News and World Report</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat</title>
            <link>http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMNJE1YUFF_index_0.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMNJE1YUFF_index_0.html</guid>
            <description>European Space Agency</description>
			<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Searching for Alien Neutrino Messages</title>
            <link>http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/searching-for-a.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/05/searching-for-a.html</guid>
            <description>Wired</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Alaska to sue to block polar bear listing</title>
            <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2145097820080522</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN2145097820080522</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Polar bear numbers set to fall</title>
            <link>http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080521/full/453432a.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080521/full/453432a.html</guid>
            <description>Nature</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Denmark seeks unity over Arctic claims</title>
            <link>http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL2189280920080521</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKL2189280920080521</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Who Is the Walrus?</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/science/20walrus.html?ref=science</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/science/20walrus.html?ref=science</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice Dwellers Are Finding Less Ice to Dwell On</title>
            <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/science/20count.html?ref=science</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/science/20count.html?ref=science</guid>
            <description>New York Times</description>
			<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Explorers Marvel At 'Brittlestar City' On Seamount In Powerful Current Swirling Around Antarctica</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080518122148.htm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080518122148.htm</guid>
            <description>ScienceDaily</description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Bush administration bars drilling in Arctic wetland</title>
            <link>http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1644783920080516</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSN1644783920080516</guid>
            <description>Reuters</description>
     		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Palaeoclimate: Windows on the greenhouse</title>
            <link>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7193/full/453291a.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7193/full/453291a.html</guid>
            <description>Nature</description>
     		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>US lists polar bear as threatened</title>
            <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7401940.stm</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7401940.stm</guid>
            <description>BBC News</description>
     		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>World's wildlife and environment already hit by climate change, major study shows</title>
            <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/15/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/15/climatechange.scienceofclimatechange</guid>
            <description>The Guardian</description>
     		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Climate clues in ice</title>
            <link>http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32122/title/Climate_clues_in_ice</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32122/title/Climate_clues_in_ice</guid>
            <description>Science News</description>
     		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Ice cores reveal fluctuations in the Earth’s greenhouse gases</title>
            <link>http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/greenhouse_gases/</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/news/greenhouse_gases/</guid>
            <description>Niels Bohr Institute</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>	
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            <title>Earth Impacts Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change</title>
            <link>http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/human_impact.html</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/human_impact.html</guid>
            <description>NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies</description>
			<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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            <title>Mysterious Arctic whale under threat from changing habitat</title>
            <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/13/endangeredspecies.endangeredhabitats</link>
			<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/13/endangeredspecies.endangeredhabitats</guid>
            <description>The Guardian</description>
     		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 08:00:00 PST</pubDate>
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