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Antarctic Icebergs Are 'Hotspots' for Marine Life
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6-22-2007 6:33 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b228dbcd-c8d9-4f19-91ba-b51caa0cd531/271CA386-2131-4E69-8312-6447B7AF7840/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html" href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.livescience.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html"><P> The ever-increasing number of free-floating icebergs breaking off Antarctica due to Earth’s warming temperatures are serving as “hotspots” for life, with seabirds swooping above and complex webs of marine life teeming below, a new study shows. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.livescience.com/img/6536ADF9-E3F7-4ECF-B5F4-2B356F7A17F3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html"><P> Global warming is showing its most dramatic effect at Earth’s poles so far, and the rising temperatures are causing Antarctic ice shelves to <A href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/050803_larsen_b.html">shrink and split apart</A> into thousands of icebergs that drift out to sea. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html"><P> Researchers examined <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070620_iceberg_generic_02.jpg&cap=Iceberg+W-86%2C+one+of+the+two+icebergs+in+the+study%2C+in+December+2005+in+the+Weddell+Sea.+Credit:+Henry+A.+Ruhl&title=Antarctic+Icebergs+Are+%E2%80%98Hotspots%E2%80%99+for+Marine+Life">two of these icebergs</A> drifting in the Weddell Sea, an arm of the Southern Atlantic Ocean that cuts into Antarctica southeast of South America’s Cape Horn. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html"><P> They found that the <A href="http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/061012_icebergs_float.html">floating icebergs</A> transport material from the continent and release it further out at sea <A href="http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=070620_iceberg_melt_02.jpg&cap=Melt+water+cascading++from+the+top+fo+iceberg+A-52.+Credit:+Kim+Reisenbichler&title=Antarctic+Icebergs+Are+%E2%80%98Hotspots%E2%80%99+for+Marine+Life">as they melt</A>. This material produces a “halo effect” of increased biological activity for a radius of more than two miles around the icebergs. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.livescience.com/environment/070621_iceberg_hotspots.html"><P> The findings are detailed in the June 22 issue of the journal <EM>Science</EM>. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/271CA386-2131-4E69-8312-6447B7AF7840/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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