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Octopus DNA gives scientists a glimpse into Antarctica's ancient past, and a possible highly unstable future
By studying the DNA of separate octopus populations, they stumbled upon a remarkable truth: around …
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About 3 trillion tonnes of Antarctic ice has melted over the past 25 years
Antarctica is shedding ice at an alarming rate. Using the data recorded by satellites, researchers …
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An iceberg the size of Los Angeles just broke off Antarctica - and it could happen again within weeks
Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf is replete with cracks. One crack has been growing for months, and a 4…
Aylin Woodward
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Time-lapse video shows the ice shelf of one of Antarctica's largest glaciers breaking into large chunks
Time-lapse footage of Pine Island Glacier between 2017 and 2020 shows its ice shelf breaking into l…
Sophia Ankel
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The sea-level rise from Antarctica's melting ice sheet could be 30% higher than estimated due to an effect scientists previously thought was 'inconsequential,' new study says
The "water expulsion mechanism" means global sea-level rise over the next 1,000 years could be 3.3 …
Marianne Guenot
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Antarctica is melting so fast that scientists are proposing shooting artificial snow out of cannons to slow it down
Scientists like Levermann track what's known as the glaciers' grounding lines: the point at which c…
Aylin Woodward
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Antarctica is gaining ice, but not for long
The data show that a long, 10,000-year process of snowfall accumulation that began at the end of th…
Jeremy Berke
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What’s wrong with Antarctica? NASA says it’s gaining more ice than losing
If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is n…
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Antarctica is about to lose an iceberg 30 times the size of Manhattan as two cracks converge - and it could cripple a British research station
Since the station's inception in 1956, there have been six Halleys. The station's current iteration…
Aylin Woodward
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One of Antarctica's biggest glaciers will soon reach a point of irreversible melting. That would cause sea levels to rise at least 1.6 feet.
Every year, the portion of the Thwaites Glacier's floating ice shelf that extends into the sea gets…
Aylin Woodward
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Meet the 2 Americans who were chosen from a pool of 140,000 people to spend 10 days on a mini-sabbatical in Antarctica with Airbnb this winter
Earlier this fall, Airbnb announced that it would be accepting applications for a month-long, all-e…
Melissa Wiley
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Antarctica is melting faster than anyone thought, and we're not ready for the sea level rise that's coming
We've already baked a certain amount of sea level rise into the planet's system. Global temperature…
Kevin Loria
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An engineering firm wants to tow icebergs thousands of miles from Antarctica to quench the driest areas of the world - and it's starting with Dubai
The company is beginning a pilot study in November to examine the feasibility of the iceberg-towing…
Jeremy Berke
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Scientists just drilled the deepest hole ever in western Antarctica, going 2 kilometers down through the ice to study how it's melting
"There is a limited time window of about 24 hours where the hole is large enough to deploy instrume…
Aylin Woodward
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Hot rock under Antarctica may be melting some of its ice sheets from the bottom-up
Something else is buoying the region, and recent seismic imaging - essentially 3D-radar for Earth's…
Dave Mosher
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EXCLUSIVE: The fight against Japanese Whaling is not over, Sea Shepherd captain reveals and talks about the conservation laws void
The oceans are at peril and there is law enforcement void in the international waters. Someone need…
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There's a cavity underneath Antarctica that's two thirds the size of Manhattan - a sign ice sheets are melting faster than we thought
Antarctica is ringed by a skirt of ice sheets and floating ice shelves that provide a buffer betwee…
Aylin Woodward
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Scientists think a giant artificial wall propped up under Antarctica's ice sheets could stop catastrophic sea level rise
The project is still theoretical. This sort of "ice sheet intervention today would be at the edge o…
Kevin Loria
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An outrageous plan to drag icebergs 2,500 miles from Antarctica to Cape Town has been floated as a solution to its unprecedented drought
Specifically, the experts plan to wrap the icebergs in special fabric to stop them melting, then at…
Alexandra Ma
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At the bottom of the world, a 33-year-old is about to trek across Antarctica alone - a journey no one has survived. He's bringing just one pair of underwear.
When it's that cold, the body tends to put on more protective brown fat. Unlike white fat, brown fa…