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Less ice, more seawater

By Stephen Ornes / December 20, 2012

Meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet carved this canyon.

Credit: Ian Joughin

Shrinking ice sheets contribute to rising sea levels, large-scale study confirms

Posted in Earth | Tagged Andrew Shepherd, Antarctica, Arctic, climate change, earth science, England, environmental science, getinvolved, glacier, global warming, Greenland, ice sheet, icebergs, Penn State University, satellites, sea level rise, snow, topstories, University of Leeds

Cool Jobs: Wild science

By Sharon Oosthoek / August 16, 2012

Arctic researcher Kathy Young (rear) walks back to her remote research cabin on Canada’s Bathurst Island with her student Valen Steer. Credit: Tarmo Remmel

Collecting data can be dangerous for scientists who work in the field

Posted in Science Education, STEM Careers | Tagged Arctic, atrazine, Bathurst Island, cool jobs, feature, field research, fieldwork, frog, fungus-farming ants, hippo, hydrology, Inuit, Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo, Kathy Young, permafrost, polar bear, topstories, Tyrone Hayes, wetlands