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Antarctica just hit 65 degrees, its warmest temperature ever recorded
It comes days after Earth's warmest January on record.
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What You Can Learn from Living in Antarctica
Joe Pettit is a person of contradictions. A lover of solitude who manages teams, an engineer who writes poetry and paints, a family man who spends several months a year on remote Antarctic glaciers, installing delicate scientific instruments. It’s a rare mixture of qualities to find anywhere in the world—except, perhaps, in Antarctica.
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A Horrible Place for an Oil Spill
In the last few days of 2018, as the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, lay cloaked in the long darkness of polar night, a shrimp trawler called the Northguider ran aground off the coast of one of the islands.
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Melting Antarctic ice will raise sea level by 2.5 metres – even if Paris climate goals are met, study finds
Melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will cause sea level rises of about two and a half metres around the world, even if the goals of the Paris agreement are met, research has shown. The melting is likely to take place over a long period, beyond the end of this century, but is almost certain to be irreversible, because of the way in which the ice cap is likely to melt, the new model reveals.
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'Doomsday Glacier' vulnerability seen in new maps
Scientists may just have identified Thwaites Glacier's Achilles heel. This Antarctic colossus is melting at a rapid rate, dumping billions of tonnes of ice in the ocean every year and pushing up global sea-levels. Now, a UK-US team has surveyed the deep seafloor channels in front of the glacier that almost certainly provide the access for warm water to infiltrate and attack Thwaites' underside.
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Scientists warn of rapid melting of Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday glacier’
Thwaites glacier is losing ice at an accelerating rate, threatening catastrophic sea-level rise
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I Was Isolated for a Year in Antarctica—Here’s What Surprised Me Most When I Came Back
While you may not have been quite this isolated over the last few months, reentry into life after lockdown might be bumpier than you expect.
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Antarctica's weird green snow set to spread due to climate change, scientists predict
It's not grass growing along the Antarctic Peninsula. The culprits are a lot smaller.
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Remote sensing reveals Antarctic green snow algae as important terrestrial carbon sink
Snow algae bloom along the coast of Antarctica and are likely to be biogeochemically important. Here, the authors produced the first map of such blooms, show that they are driven by warmer temperatures and proximity to birds and mammals, and are likely to increase given projected climate changes.
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NASA says Antarctica and Greenland lost enough ice to fill Lake Michigan over last 16 years
Antarctica and Greenland lost thousands of gigatons of ice in the last 16 years, according to results
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Before becoming frozen wasteland, Antarctica was home to frogs
When paleontologist Thomas Mörs was peering into a microscope while sorting through tiny 40 million-year-old fossils unearthed on Seymour Island near the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, he came across quite a surprise - hip and skull bones of a frog.
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Ice-free Arctic summers now very likely even with climate action
The loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic is now very likely before 2050, new research shows, even if the carbon emissions driving the climate crisis are cut rapidly. The result has alarmed scientists but they said slashing greenhouse gases remained vital as this would determine whether Arctic summer ice vanished permanently or could recover over time. If emissions remain very high, there is a risk the Arctic could be ice-free even in the dark, cold winter months, a possibility described as “catastrophic”.
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Antarctica has just had its first recorded heatwave
While the world rightfully focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic, the planet is still warming. This summer's Antarctic weather, as elsewhere in the world, was unprecedented in the observed record.
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This giant glacier in Antarctica is melting, and it could raise sea levels by 5 feet, scientists say
In the last 22 years, one giant glacier in Antarctica has retreated almost three miles. If it fully thaws, sea levels would rise almost 5 feet.
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This 'Blood-Red' Snow Is Taking Over Parts of Antarctica
After a month of record-breaking temperatures, a kind of snow algae that turns ruby-hued in warm temperatures thrives.
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Heat wave melts 20% of snow cover from Antarctic island in days
It's the third major melt event of the 2019-2020 Southern Hemisphere summer, NASA says.
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See how the Antarctica heat wave turned ice and snow into puddles at a shocking rate
"I haven't seen melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica," one scientist said.
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Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.75C logged by Brazilian scientists at Seymour Island on 9 February was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982.
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Good Morning. It's 65 Degrees in Antarctica.
That's warmer than Orlando today.
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Patterns of thinning of Antarctica's biggest glacier are opposite to previously observed
Using the latest satellite technology from the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists from the University of Bristol have been tracking patterns of mass loss from Pine Island—Antarctica's largest glacier.
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