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Ancient Ice Cores and Climate Change - Adélie Land, Antarctica

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Ancient sea ice core sheds modern light on climate change (News Release, University of Birmingham ; September 9, 2021) https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/latest/2021/09/ancient-sea-ice-core-sheds-light-on-modern-climate-change.aspx Featured Research Article: Sensitivity of Holocene East Antarctic productivity to subdecadal variability set by sea ice (JOHNSON et al. , 2021) https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00722/83378/88352.pdf Also... Mid-Holocene Antarctic sea ice increase driven by marine ice sheet retreat (ASHLEY et al. , 2021) https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/17/1/2021/ Multi-decadal trends in Antarctica sea-ice extent driven by ENSO-SAM over the last 2,000 years (CROSTA et al. , 2021) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i3DiEwHEoWbWh2bWLqOYh91Kewj8oNjY/view Adélie Land (Terre-Adélie) in Antarctica ,  TUBS ; CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link Antarctica, territorial claims including Brazil,   A loose necktie ;  CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link

First Rock Core from Martian Rock, "Rochette", Successfully Collected

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Diagram of Mars Perseverance Rover Instruments , NASA ; Link Success! Mars Rover finally collects its first Rock core  (Alexandra WITZE, Nature ; September 7, 2021) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02394-w NASA's Perseverance Rover Successfully Cores Its First Rock (Press Release, NASA/JPL-Caltech ; September 2, 2021) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-s-perseverance-rover-successfully-cores-its-first-rock

Wildfires 2021: Interactive Map shows the Current Air Quality for Every Part of California and the U. S., plus More!

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( Sacramento Bee ; September 1, 2021) https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article253893778.html Monument Fire Evacuation on August 1, 2021 ; Link Also... Raw Video:  Caldor Fire-Flames Inch Near South Lake Tahoe (California Wildfire Cal Fire,  Caledonian Record ; August 30, 2021) https://www.caledonianrecord.com/news/national/raw-ca-caldor-fire-flames-inch-near-south-lake-tahoe/video_fcb62edc-3ef2-50b4-a54e-4bb9b33ed164.html Websites: Active Fires of Interest ( Cal Fire ) https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/ Fires ( AirNow ) https://www.airnow.gov/fires/ AirNow Interactive Air Quality Map  ( EPA/ESRI ) https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/