Topic: Greenland

Arctic terns take break en route south for winter

Researchers find ocean region where arctic terns like to take a break en route southArctic terns heading south for the winter like to take a break for a few days off the coast of Newfoundland. While the little four-ounce birds have long been famed for their migrations from the Arctic ...
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Taking terns on flights to the moon

OSLO (Reuters) - Arctic terns can fly more than 80,000 km (49,700 miles) a year, beating past estimates of the seabirds' record migrations and equivalent to three round trips to the Moon over a lifetime, a study showed on Monday. Tiny tracking devices attached to 11 of the small ...
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Arctic terns' flying feat: same as 3 trips to Moon

OSLO (Reuters) - Arctic terns can fly more than 80,000 km (49,700 miles) a year, beating past estimates of the seabirds' record migrations and equivalent to three round trips to the Moon over a lifetime, a study showed Monday. Tiny tracking devices attached to 11 of the small white ...
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Sea rose eight metres in warmer age: study

Sea levels were likely eight metres higher around 125,000 years ago when polar temperatures were 3-5 degrees C warmer, says a new study published Wednesday to show the effects of global warming. The research by the US universities of Harvard and Princeton was released in the journal Nature as ...
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