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Riled Up is a journal of science, the environment, exploration, new technology, and related commentary.  Contributors include scientists, explorers, engineers, and others who provide perspectives and context not typically offered in general news circulation.  For interested readers, additional resources are included.

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Antarctica fully mapped

Researchers at UC Irvine, NASA, and JPL have now combined satellite and other remote sensing data of Antarctica to produce the first complete map of the ice bound continent. [caption id="attachment_6714" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="Complete Antarctica map credit: JPL/NASA"][/caption] The new mapping data collected between 2007-2009, didn't determine if Antarctic glaciers are melting in response to climate change. The speed and movement of a continent-wide glacial ...
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Holy Crap!

There are trip planners for virtually anything-- specialty food visits to Italian villages, extreme travel to the top of Mount Everest, even farewell tours to flooded cities along the Yangtze River --but who would have guessed exotic travel destinations would also include tours to watch the impact of climate change on Alaskan glaciers. Here's what happens when a tourist photo-op at the Sawyer Glacier gets too close to the scenery: Holy Crap indeed! WHB
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Melting away

One glacier region found to contribute 10% of the world's melting ice was the subject of a recent report by University of Michigan researchers and colleagues from Norway and The Netherlands. It was published in Nature just before Earth Day. The title caught my attention. What the environmental researchers were observing in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago is now seen as the third largest source of water running into the oceans even though this region contains only a very small portion of ...
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