If you're planning to ice skate on a local lake or river this winter, you may need to think twice, according to scientists John Magnuson, Olaf Jensen and Barbara Benson of the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  Their research is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

From sources as diverse as newspaper archives, transportation ledgers and religious observances, the researchers have amassed 150 years of lake and river ice records spanning the Northern Hemisphere.  ...

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Scientists on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have closed out the inaugural season of an unprecedented, multiyear effort to retrieve the largest, most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere over the last 100,000 years.

After three weeks of round-the-clock drilling for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) Ice Core Project--730 miles north of the South Pole, with summer waning and temperatures...Click Here for More Information