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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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