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Community knowledge builds resilience to Arctic climate change impacts
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Visual histories added to Evenki Atlas
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NSIDC DAAC data sets published on Earthdata Cloud
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NSIDC DAAC data sets published on Earthdata Cloud
Thirty-four data sets from the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), and Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite/Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (ICESat/GLAS) collections...
Arctic sea ice has reached minimum extent for 2022
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Free NASA webinar to learn about NSIDC DAAC’s new website
On Wednesday, August 24, at 12 p.m. MDT/ 2 p.m. EDT, the NASA EOSDIS (Earth Observing System Data and Information System) Communications Team will...
NSIDC.org website: New look and new features
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CU Boulder to host an NSF-funded Greenland natural science data workshop
This fall, the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder will host a Greenland natural science data workshop to bring together members of the data and...
From vision to journey: Arctic Rain on Snow Study
By Agnieszka GautierHelicopters hover over the Norwegian tundra. The pilots, scanning the landscape, find their targets and drop their payload. But this is no...
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