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- Big lakes detected under Antarctica
  Posted by Jeff from CNN
  The satellite detected dips in the surface that moved around as the hidden lakes drained and filled beneath the surface glaciers, which are moving rivers of ice. "The parts that are changing are changing so rapidly that they can't be anything else but (sub-surface) water," she said. "It's such a quick thing."
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- Japan's Blue Whale and Minke Whale Hunt Ends
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  The Japanese say they take only Minke Whales but Blue have been taken too: The country admitted yesterday that this year's hunt - due to kill 945 whales by mid-March - will probably have to be abandoned as a result of a fire that has crippled its fleet's mother ship, the Nisshin Maru, and raised fears of an oil spill into the area's pristine waters
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- Powerful Quake Hits Near Antarctica
  Posted by Billbar from Washington Post
  A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Sunday in the Scotia Sea between South America and Antarctica, Japanese and U.S. officials said. No tsunami alert was issued by the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, said Dale Grant, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center.
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- Crater Could be Linked to "Great Dying"
  Posted by Billbar from Seed Magazine
  Ralph von Frese, professor of geological sciences at Ohio State University, led a research team that uncovered a crater-like circular ridge buried under more than a mile of Antarctic ice that he believes may be linked to the mass extinction of the Permian-Triassic period, also known as "The Great Dying".
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- Vast Plumbing Network Discovered Beneath Antarctica
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  Using ultra-precise radar measurements taken with the European Space Agency's ERS-2 satellite, researchers discovered an intricate network of channels beneath Antarctica's ice sheets that may allow water, and possibly life, to shuttle from one underground lake to another.
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- Antarctica Losing Ice, Contrary to Expectations
  Posted by Billbar from Live Science
  Joining the growing list of places on this planet that are melting, Antarctica, which holds 90 percent of Earth’s ice and 70 percent of the total fresh water on the planet, is losing some 36 cubic miles of ice every year. For comparison, Los Angeles consumes roughly 1 cubic mile of fresh water a year.
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Jon comments on:
Last-Ditch Resort: Move Polar Bears to Antarctica?

Oy. Vey.

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2:11 am 7/25/08
Jeff comments on:
McCain Supportive of Polar Bear Relocation

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11:08 am 4/02/08
Julie comments on:
McCain Supportive of Polar Bear Relocation

I agree, let’s relocate McCain. That’s a problem-solver right there.

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4:50 am 4/02/08
eqexroxx comments on:
McCain Supportive of Polar Bear Relocation

Just the WORD styrofoam makes me shudder. It’s so toxic to produce and destroy and it pollutes everwhere it goes. Huge numbers of seabirds die of starvation from eating plastic & styrofoam. I love the concept, though!
How about platforms of untreated wood that we replace every three years? Causes no environmental damage, uses a renewable resource and employs lots of people. I guess hauling them from the forests to the ocean could be difficult – we could use dog sleds…

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12:40 pm 4/01/08
dogwood comments on:
McCain Supportive of Polar Bear Relocation

There is currently a group working on producing artificial ice for polar bears – essentially large styrofoam pads that they could hunt from as the real ice melts. The technology is similar to the childrens sculpting material ‘floam’.

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12:18 pm 4/01/08
eqexroxx comments on:
McCain Supportive of Polar Bear Relocation

Well, for one thing, almost no one goes to Antarctica at all, for any reason. And the penguins are the fauna of Antarctica, Jeff. As are the dolphins, seals and all their babies. So – if the polar bears eat all the penguins and the seals, which they may easily do, since the penguins and Antarctica seals aren’t evolved to avoid such a hungry predator, the polar bears will starve and we’ll have no more penguins or seals, either.
I love polar bears – and I’ve often thought this might be an option. I simply have seen enough "great ideas" of importing non-native species gone awry to approach this idea with a bit of hesitation. Mongeese into Hawaii, snakes into Guam, cats into Australia, ivy into forests, goldfish into rivers…. An exit strategy might be a good thing to have…..

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12:08 pm 4/01/08
Jeff comments on:
McCain Supportive of Polar Bear Relocation

No one goes to Antarctica for the fauna Roxanne! They go for the penguins! Now, they’ll go for the polar bears too … and POLAR BEARS EATING PENGUINS!

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11:27 am 4/01/08