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Global research network needed to understand changes in the Arctic mongabay.com February 17, 2007
Saturday Berry Lyons, director of the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University, outlined a plan that would consolidate research on the Arctic into a single network. "This is basically a plan to better understand how the Arctic is changing, but doing it in a new systematic, international and 'pan-Arctic' way," said Lyons. "We're trying to understand how the Arctic system is responding, not just to climate change — although that is a major reason — but also to environmental changes in general."
In recent years scientists have raised alarm bells over fast-declining sea ice in the Arctic. Projections by the National Center for Atmospheric Research suggest that the Arctic Ocean could have ice-free summers by 2040, effectively creating a Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This article is based on a news release from Ohio State University. Comments? News options News index | RSS | Add to MyYahoo! Advertisements: Organic Apparel from Patagonia | Insect-repelling clothing |
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