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The White Darkness: A Journey Across Antarctica
At fifty-five, Henry Worsley began a solitary trek that became a singular test of character. By David Grann.
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When Teens Just… Snuck onto Antarctic Expeditions
The true story of one Antarctica-bound boat and several unexpected crew members. By Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
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NASA released a new image showing Antarctica's melting iceberg
The image was captured by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite.
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British Polar explorer Ben Saunders echoes Shackleton as he abandons quest to cross South Pole unassisted
The British Polar explorer Ben Saunders gave up his quest to cross the South Pole echoing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s words that it was better to return home as a ‘live donkey’ than a ‘dead lion’. Mr Saunders, 40, was forced to abandon his mission to cross Antarctica unassisted after ‘ferocious’ weather conditions left him without enough food to complete his journey.
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Guelph researcher heads to Antarctica to hunt for meteorites
An Ontario physicist is embarking on a NASA-funded expedition to Antarctica to collect meteorites, in hopes that the fallen space rocks will give researchers new insight into the outer reaches of the solar system. Scott VanBommel, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Guelph, is joining the annual Antarctic Search for Meteorites for a six-week excursion to the Transantarctic Mountains, about 350 km from the South Pole.
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Global catastrophe is just two melted glaciers away
New research reveals scary projections for rapid sea-level rise. By Eric Holthaus.
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NASA Snaps Amazing Close-up Shot Of Antarctica’s Massive Iceberg
Last July, the world saw the amazing satellite images that showed an iceberg bigger than the state of Delaware drifting away from Antarctica’s ice shelf. Now it’s summertime in Antarctica, which is allowing scientists to view the massive ice structure up close. According to Gizmodo, the ice behemoth is known as “iceberg A-68” and weighs “about a trillion tons and features a surface area of 2,240 square miles (5,800 square kilometers).”
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A Photo Trip to Antarctica
Images from the past few years of the Antarctic landscape, wildlife, research facilities, and some of the scientific work taking place there. By Lan Taylor.
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Antarctica Was Once Covered in Forests. We Just Found One That Fossilized.
It was summer in Antarctica, and Erik Gulbranson and John Isbell were on the hunt. Bundled up in parkas to brave negative temperatures, fierce winds, and blinding days of 24-hour sunlight, Gulbranson, Isbell, and an international team of researchers searched for fossil fragments. Between November 2016 and January 2017, they scaled the snow-capped slopes of the McIntyre Promontory high above the ice fields and glaciers, sifting through the Transantarctic Mountain's gray sedimentary rocks for clues.
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Ozone hole over Antarctica is smallest it’s been since 1988: NASA
The huge hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer reached its maximum this year in September, and this year NASA said it was 19.6 million square kilometres.
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Scientists Just Found Another Vulnerability in Antarctica's Icy Armor
It’s becoming increasingly clear that no place on Earth is safe from the influence of carbon pollution, and East Antarctica is no exception. Research published on Wednesday in Science Advances is the latest troubling sign to emerge for the region, showing that natural processes that cause melt could accelerate due to climate change. It’s just going to happen in a way you might not expect.
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The Perils and Pleasures of Bartending in Antarctica
At the South Pole, the freezer is just a hole in the wall to the ice outside.
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Antarctic Adélie penguin colony in jeopardy as Marine Protection Area is rejected
huge colony of Adélie penguins in Antarctica is at risk after an international commission founded to preserve wildlife at the South Pole refused to establish a Marine Protection Area, despite pleas from conservationists. The 18,000 pairs of penguins in Terre Adélie suffered a catastrophic breeding failure at the start of 2017 with only two chicks surviving.
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Penguins die in 'catastrophic' season
Only two chicks survived in a colony of 36,000 in a "catastrophic" breeding season in east Antarctica.
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A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up in Antarctica
“We’re still trying to figure out what’s going on.” By Kate Lunau.
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Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic Expedition May Have Been Sabotaged
New evidence suggests his second-in-command was to blame. By Kelsey Kennedy.
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Shuffleboard At McMurdo
"The point of building McMurdo was to get Americans to the South Pole, part of an unpublicized Antarctic base race with the Soviet Union." By Maciej Cegłowski.
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Iceberg four times the size of Manhattan breaks off Antarctica
An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan, 100-square-mile (259 km²), just broke off from Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. A worrying sign with regards to future sea level rise. Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica—one that’s responsible for a quarter of the frozen continent’s ice loss, around 45 billion tons of ice each year. Satellite images taken on 26 September show an open-water gap emerging between the ice shelf and the iceberg, which is about two thirds the size of the Isle of Wight (103 square miles or 267 km²).
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Antarctic sea ice levels hit record low, but experts are not sure why
Sea ice levels in Antarctica dropped to a record low this year, but experts say there is not a clear link to climate change. More than 60 meteorologists and scientists from around the world are holding a week-long meeting in Hobart, Tasmania, to better understand sea ice changes on the frozen continent. Dr Jan Lieser from the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre said sea ice levels had experienced a “massive increase” in variability over the past few years.
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Researchers find secret, warm oasis beneath Antarctica’s ice that could be home to undiscovered species
A study of the subglacial caves could reveal new undiscovered animal or plant species living comfortably due to the heat of an active volcano. By Victor Ferreira.
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