New stamps mark International Polar Year
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The eerie lights that dance across the skies above the north and south poles highlight a pair of new U.S. stamps marking the start of the International Polar Year.
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A new postage stamp celebrates jury duty as an important way for Americans to serve their community.
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President Reagan's famous smile and blue eyes shine from a new postage stamp issued Wednesday in ceremonies across the country. It's the latest in an already-high stack of honors bestowed on the former president since his death eight months ago.
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There's new evidence from an Antarctic ice core that the popular image of the melting poles doesn't quite fit reality at the southern one. Elizabeth R. Thomas of the British Antarctic Survey and colleagues report in Geophysical Research Letters that snow accumulation has doubled since 1850 in the western Antarctic peninsula, and that the trend [...].
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PARIS -- Children in Norway plead for snow. Polar researchers describe melting glaciers. Some experts say that within this century, the Arctic may no longer be ice-locked.
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Thousands of scientists from across the world join forces this week to investigate the effects of global warming on the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets.
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More than 60 nations started the biggest scientific investigation of the Arctic and Antarctic on Thursday amid new evidence that global warming is thawing polar ice and raising sea levels.
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REYKJAVIK, ICELAND - Arctic nations said changes in the world&#39;s polar regions are a concern but they fell short of committing to specific actions to slow down or adapt to warming.
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Americans may want to start bracing for another postage increase.
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A stamp honoring former U.S.  President Ronald Reagan, who died June 5, was unveiled by the  U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday.
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About 3,000 polar bears live around the Arctic Barents Sea off northern Europe, according to a first census on Thursday that sets a benchmark to judge bears' vulnerability to pollution and melting ice.
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Expect correspondence For Your Eyes Only The Royal Mail today released a set of commemorative stamps to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming.â¦
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A new set of postage stamps will feature the birds and the bees &#151; and more.
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The largest polar research programme for 50 years, by thousands of scientists, gets under way this week.
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Britain's national postal service, Royal Mail, has unveiled a set of stamps that feature the covers of Ian Fleming's Bond novels.
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Britain issued a series of seven postage stamps depicting the covers of the best-selling Harry Potter books Tuesday, days before the final volume in the series goes on sale.
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It's December 2005 and you're all set for Christmas in Vienna. You have your most fashionable cold-weather gear, right down to the red maple leaves embroidered on your jacket and backpack, to conceal your American citizenship from hostile denizens of Europe.