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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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NASA released a new image showing Antarctica's melting iceberg
The image was captured by NASA's Landsat 8 satellite.
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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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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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UK team set for giant iceberg expedition
Scientists will set out in the next week to study an Antarctic realm that has been hidden for thousands of years. A British Antarctic Survey-led team will explore the seabed ecosystem exposed when a giant iceberg broke away from the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. The organisation has also released the first video of the berg, which covers almost 6,000 sq km.
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Freakishly Warm Weather in the Arctic Has Climate Scientists 'Stunned'
During the Arctic winter, when the sun hides from October to March, the average temperature in the frozen north typically hovers around a bone-chilling minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 20 degrees Celsius). But this year, the Arctic is experiencing a highly unusual heat wave.
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Scientists find a previously unknown mega-colony of penguins on Antarctic islands
More than 1.5 million Adelie penguins were unexpectedly found on the Danger Islands.
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Arctic has warmest winter on record: 'Never seen anything like this'
The Arctic winter has ended with more news that is worrying even the scientists who watch the effects of climate change closely. The region experienced its warmest winter on record. Sea ice hit record lows for the time of year, new US weather data revealed on Tuesday. “It’s just crazy, crazy stuff,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, who has been studying the Arctic since 1982. “These heat waves – I’ve never seen anything like this.”
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An Iceberg Flipped Over, and Its Underside Is Breathtaking
On vacation in Antarctica, filmmaker and photographer Alex Cornell captured an unusual sight
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Journey to Antarctica: Seals, Penguins and Glacial Beauty
The trip began in Punta Arenas, the capital of Magallanes region, Chile. We had spent three days aboard the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship docked in one of the city’s harbours, to test our equipment and conduct security drills. I was eager to get to Antarctica.
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Overfishing of Krill Is Disrupting Antarctic Food Chains
Krill oil, rich in heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids, is a popular nutritional supplement around the world. However, according to a recent report from Greenpeace, growing demand is fueling commercial fishing in Antarctica's icy waters that could make it harder for all kinds of polar marine life to survive climate change threats.
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Scientists harvest 1st vegetables in Antarctic greenhouse
Scientists in Antarctica have harvested their first crop of vegetables grown without earth, daylight or pesticides as part of a project designed to help astronauts cultivate fresh food on other planets. Researchers at Germany’s Neumayer Station III say they’ve picked 3.6 kilograms (8 pounds) of salad greens, 18 cucumbers and 70 radishes grown inside a high-tech greenhouse as temperatures outside dropped below -20 degrees Celsius (-4 Fahrenheit).
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