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02/08/2012 10:18

Tropical rainforest on the South Pole

files/pr/foto's/persberichten/tropisch strand LR.jpgAbout 50 million years ago, the Antarctic summer was subtropical, winter temperatures were above freezing and there was a tropical rainforest on the coast. These are the remarkable results of a research cruise to eastern Antarctica aboard a drilling vessel, led by expedition leader Henk Brinkhuis from Utrecht University and the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research. The international research team will publish their results in the authoritative scientific journal Nature later this week.

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20/07/2012 02:00

Welcome to the new NIOZ website!

Dear visitor,

Welcome to the new website of NIOZ. We are aware of some obvious errors such as blank pages and the fact that the site is not fully bilingual yet. For information which is not yet available on the new site, we would like to redirect you to the previous website of NIOZ at wwwold.nioz.nl.

Sincerely,
NIOZ website team

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