It’s been more than 100 years since anyone has journeyed to this section of Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea, but that is about to change. Next month five UTSA researchers and a Boerne High School science teacher will join a crew of 22 researchers from several countries to set sail on a two month expedition.
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Russia has rejected criticism of its landmark expedition to the Arctic Ocean's seabed under the North Pole, where explorers on August 2 planted a Russian flag.
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An eight-month voyage through the Arctic Ocean, without ship or travel route: the North Pole drifting station NP-35 represents an unusual project of the International Polar Year
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Returning from a recent 1,000-mile expedition across Tibet's remote Chang Tang region, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) biologist George Schaller reports that the Tibetan antelope - once the target of rampant poaching - may be increasing in numbers due to a combination of better enforcement and a growing conservation ethic in local communities.
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