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Boaty McBoatface to go on first Antarctic mission
A small yellow robot submarine, called Boaty McBoatface after a competition to name a new polar research ship backfired, is being sent on its first Antarctic mission. Boaty, which has arguably one of the most famous names in recent maritime history, is a new type of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), which will be able to travel under ice, reach depths of 6,000 metres, and transmit the data it collects to researchers via a radio link.
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Fake News About a Secret Nazi UFO Base In Antarctica Refuses to Die
This researcher at Cambridge has a PhD and still had to take time to prove why the Nazi Antarctic UFO base is a hoax. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica
It was the hottest temperature recorded on the continent since 1974. One of the coldest places in the world is warming up fast. Scientists from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced a new record high temperature of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit for the continent of Antarctica. The temperature was initially recorded on March 24, 2015 at the Argentine research base Esperanza, nestled on the northernmost tip of the Antarctic Peninsula just underneath South America.
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New Record-High Temperatures in Antarctica Are Giving Us Serious Anxiety
Now, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) has verified new "record-high temperatures" for Antarctica, and they're more than a little unsettling - in recent history, the coldest continent on Earth has hit a positively balmy 19.8°C (67.6°F), and 17.5°C (63.5°F).
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Huge crack in Antarctic ice shelf grows by 6 more miles
A crack in an ice shelf in Antarctica grew by six miles in the past few weeks, British scientists say, and now measures more than 100 miles long. Once the crack is complete, a giant iceberg larger than Rhode Island will break or "calve" off of Antarctica. The iceberg would be one of the biggest on record.
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Women hate Donald Trump so much they are even marching against him in Antarctica
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica. The day after the inauguration of a president who bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, thousands will be marching in Washington and in more than 60 countries around the world, to “stand up for human rights, women’s rights and against hate.”
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The huge crack in this Antarctic ice shelf just grew by another 6 miles
The crack in the Larsen C ice shelf has grown 17 miles in a little over a month. By Chris Mooney.
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Ice crack to put UK Antarctic base in shut-down
The British Antarctic Survey is pulling all staff out of the space-age Halley base in March because of a big crack in nearby ice. By Jonathan Amos.
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Massive object frozen under Antarctica
SCIENTISTS believe a massive object which could change our understanding of history is hidden beneath the Antarctic ice. The Sun reports the huge and mysterious “anomaly” is thought to be lurking beneath the frozen wastes of an area called Wilkes Land. It stretches for a distance of 151 miles across and has a maximum depth of about 848 metres. Some researchers believe it is the remains of a truly massive asteroid which was more than twice the size of the Chicxulub space rock which wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Where Does the Waste Go? A Day in the Life of a Scientist
Join a group of Antarctic scientists as they build the world's coldest porta-potty, known as the "waste tent." It's no surprise that they can't stop laughing because this one stinks to high heaven.
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Scientists confirm that warm ocean water is melting the biggest glacier in East Antarctica
Scientists at institutions in the US and Australia on Friday published a set of unprecedented ocean observations near the largest glacier of the largest ice sheet in the world: Totten glacier, East Antarctica. And the result was a troubling confirmation of what scientists already feared - Totten is melting from below.
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NASA study confirms rift in Antarctic ice shelf
Ice loss could be happening much faster than previously thought. By Laurel Kornfeld.
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West Antarctica Begins to Destabilize With ‘Intense Unbalanced Melting’
"The bottom of the world has drawn increased scrutiny from scientists over the last few years, as West Antarctic ice loss in some places shows signs of becoming “unstoppable.” There’s enough water locked up in West Antarctica’s Amundsen Sea region alone to raise the global average sea level by four feet, and it’s the fastest-melting spot on the continent." By Eric Roston.
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World’s Largest Marine Reserve Created Off Antarctica
New 598,000 square-mile protected area is more than twice the size of Texas, and will protect everything from penguins to whales. By Brian Clark Howard.
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Sea Ice Extent Is Near Record Lows–South as Well as North
Sea ice is at a record-low extent for late October in the Arctic and close to a record low in the Antarctic. The latter is a big change from unusually high extents in recent years. The global total of sea ice (Arctic plus Antarctic] is more than 1 million square kilometers below the previous record for late October.
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Historic Shrinking of Antarctic Ice Sheet Linked to CO2 Spike
Twenty-three million years ago, the Antarctic Ice Sheet began to shrink, going from an expanse larger than today’s to one about half its modern size. Computer models suggested a spike in carbon dioxide levels as the cause, but the evidence was elusive – until now. Ancient fossilized leaves retrieved from a lake bed in New Zealand now show for the first time that carbon dioxide levels increased dramatically over a relatively short period of time as the ice sheet began to deteriorate.
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See the Giant Crack That Could Collapse Part of an Antarctic Ice Shelf
A large crack in an Antarctic ice shelf has grown by 13 miles in the past six months, threatening to detach an area of ice larger than Delaware. Images of the Larsen C shelf captured by NASA’s Terra satellite show a fault line that now stretches 80 miles in length, according to a report from the U.S. space agency. A portion of the ice shelf—the continent’s fourth largest—could disconnect
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Thousands of strange blue lakes are appearing in Antarctica, and it’s very bad news
Scientists have confirmed that thousands of pristine blue lakes have appeared on the ice sheets of East Antarctica, and it’s got them very worried.
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Extreme Fossil Hunters Dig the Dirt in Antarctica
Antarctica is home to one of the most unforgiving climates on the planet, but the fossils here could tell an important story. By Nathaniel Scharping. (May 11, 2016)
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'Healing' detected in Antarctic ozone hole
Researchers say they have found the first clear evidence that the thinning in the ozone layer above Antarctica is starting to heal. The scientists said that in September 2015 the hole was around 4 million sq km smaller than it was in the year 2000 - an area roughly the size of India. The gains have been credited to the long term phasing out of ozone-destroying chemicals. The study also sheds new light on the role of volcanoes in making the problem worse.
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