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Scientists Search for Ancient Climate Clues Beneath Antarctic Ice  

An international team, including researchers from Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is attempting to drill for mud and rocks holding critical insights about the fate of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in our warming

TUSKED TITANS OF THE ARCTIC: WALRUS ᐊᐃᕕᖅ 

A lazy walrus lounges on an ice floe, its massive, blubbery body shimmering under the low Arctic sun. With a deep, rumbling sigh, it shifts its weight and scratches an itch on its side—more out of habit than necessity. Life, for this marine titan, moves at the pace of the tides.Odobenus rosmarus, the walrus is the only surviving member of the family Odobenidae, a once-diverse group