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Scientist Poop Will No Longer Be Pumped into the Antarctic Ocean
Living in Antarctica comes with many challenges, not the least of which is what to do with your poo. It's been a long-standing predicament for the scientists who spend extended periods on the continent, but a research station operated by Australia is now planning to change its poop-removal strategy. And its high-tech solution could help us as we prepare for human visits to other remote environments, like Mars.
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Into the Unknown
His companions died. Food was nearly gone. And Douglas Mawson still had 95 polar miles to go. By David Roberts.
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Masses of Beautiful Alabaster
Humans have long struggled to describe the grandeur and beauty of icebergs.
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Giant iceberg breaks off Antarctica
One of the biggest icebergs on record has broken away from Antarctica, scientists said on Wednesday, creating an extra hazard for ships around the continent as it breaks up. The one trillion tonne iceberg, measuring 5,800 square km, calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and 12, said scientists at the University of Swansea and the British Antarctic Survey.
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A trillion-tonne iceberg has just snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf
A TRILLION-tonne iceberg, one of the largest ever recorded, has snapped off the West Antarctic ice shelf, scientists have confirmed.
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Boaty McBoatface obtains 'unprecedented data' from its first voyage
A yellow submarine dubbed Boaty McBoatface has obtained "unprecedented data" from its first voyage exploring one of the deepest and coldest ocean regions on Earth, say scientists. The robotic submersible was given the name originally chosen last year for a new polar research ship by irreverent contestants in a public competition.
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Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf Days From Breaking Off
The imminent carving of the vast iceberg is "one of the most dramatic displays of the destruction Exxon and their peers in the fossil fuel industry have unleashed upon the planet."
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Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Shockingly Vibrant World
Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals, and exotic creatures thrive.
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Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start
The massive iceberg poised to break off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would swamp coastal cities around the world.
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Antarctic ice crack takes major turn
One of the biggest icebergs ever seen is a step closer to forming on the edge of the Larsen C shelf. The fissure, which threatens to spawn one of the biggest bergs ever seen, has dramatically changed direction. "The rift has propagated a further 16km, with a significant apparent right turn towards the end, moving the tip 13km from the ice edge," said Swansea University's Prof Adrian Luckman. The calving of the berg could now be very close, he told BBC News.
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It's so hot that Antarctica is going green, as global warming triggers moss explosion
With global warming acting up more and more, the effects are starting to show. Scientists studying banks of moss in Antarctica report that plant life on the continent is blooming. Two species of moss especially are undergoing spectacular development — they used to grow less than a millimeter per year, but now, they’re growing over 3 millimeters per year on average — and they’re turning Antarctica green.
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Antarctic Dispatches
Part One: Miles of Ice Collapsing Into the Sea. Part Two: Looming Floods, Threatened Cities. Part Three: Racing to Find Answers in the Ice. By Justin Gillis. (May 18, 2017)
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Rapid greening of Antarctic Peninsula driven by climate change
The Antarctic Peninsula is not only getting warmer, it's getting dramatically greener with a sharp increase in plant growth over the past 50 years.
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The Doomsday Glacier
In the farthest reaches of Antarctica, a nightmare scenario of crumbling ice – and rapidly rising seas – could spell disaster for a warming planet. Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is so remote that only 28 human beings have ever set foot on it. Knut Christianson, a 33-year-old glaciologist at the University of Washington, has been there twice. A few years ago, Christianson and a team of seven scientists traveled more than 1,000 miles from McMurdo Station, the main research base in Antarctica, to spend six weeks on Thwaites...
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Antarctica's second largest ice shelf could shrink dramatically
Before the end of the century, rising temperatures could trigger an influx of warm water beneath Antarctica’s second-largest ice shelf – and once it begins, researchers say there’s ‘no going back.’ The phenomenon would cause the ice to lose contact with the seafloor, which has so far acted as a natural brake to slow the ice flow. Scientists say they've already detected the first signs of the process, and once underway, it will cause the ice to shed at a much faster rate, dramatically shrinking the massive Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf.
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Trump’s Needs To Understand That Arctic Drilling Would be Disastrous for Climate
As the ice in the arctic melts, so the ice upon which Donald Trump chooses to skate continues to thin. The new American president continues his attempts to overthrow Obama’s permanent block on exploiting oil and gas reserves in the Arctic by pushing ahead with his executive order to open up the region to drilling. This however is expected to draw a host of legal challenges. First up is the fact that the law itself enforced by Obama has no provisions for reversal buying this precious planet a little more time.
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UAE to tow giant icebergs from Antarctica to use for drinking water
The United Arab Emirates is planning to tow icebergs from Antarctica to its coast to solve its issues with drinking water. The National Advisor Bureau Limited company plans to provide a new source of freshwater for the region by towing the iceberg from Antarctica to the coast of the eastern emirate of Fujairah. The Masdar city-based company then plans to mine the iceberg for drinking water.
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Antarctica's Troublesome 'Hairdryer Winds'
Warm air dropping down Peninsula mountains does not augur well for the Larsen C Ice Shelf's future.
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Antarctica's Blood Falls: not so mysterious, but still freaky as heck
You may have seen headlines proclaiming that the great mystery of Antarctica's "Blood Falls" has finally been solved. That's a little silly, because the big mystery—the question of why blood-like bright red liquid oozes out of the otherwise white surface of Taylor Glacier—hasn't been all that mysterious for some time. Two years ago, a study suggested that the water, a salty brine full of interesting microbial life and colored by a high level of iron, seems to come up from an underground waterway that connects visible lakes on the surface.
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Inside the Loneliest Five-Star Restaurant in the World
You can eat foie gras at Antarctica's Concordia Station, but your closest neighbor is the International Space Station and you might not see oranges for three months.
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