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AGU journal highlights -- Jan. 28, 2008

Doubling of snow in western Antarctic Peninsula, Good news for larch trees: More wildfires in boreal forests as climate warms, Expansion and contraction of Mars' exosphere with solar cycle, Cyclonic and anticyclonic motion in upper ocean, Sea-surface stratification from global warming shifts phytoplankton habitat, Melting Canadian ice caps.

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