Antarctica
West Antarctica was ice-free 34 million years ago, reveal new samples
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Very few deny the impact of global warming today. With the term now having become slang for everything that’s wrong with the ...
40-million-year-old river buried beneath Antarctic ice discovered
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Millions of years ago, Antarctica looked vastly different from the icy landscape we know today. A research expedition led by the Alfred ...
Study Explains Unprecedented Antarctic Ice Loss Equivalent to 10x the Size of the UK
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In 2023, Antarctic sea ice declined to historically low levels, prompting researchers to use CMIP6 climate models to assess the event’s rarity ...
The Largest Ice Shelf in Antarctica Is Behaving Oddly
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By Washington University in St. Louis May 25, 2024 Research from Washington University in St. Louis reveals that the Ross Ice Shelf ...
Satellites Reveal “Vigorous Melting” Beneath Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier
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A team led by glaciologists at UC Irvine used satellite radar data to reconstruct the impact of warm ocean water surging in ...
“Unprecedented” – CO2 Rising 10 Times Faster Than Any Time in Recorded History
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Recent research indicates that the current rate of atmospheric CO2 increase is unprecedented, being ten times faster than any period in the ...
The World’s Most Powerful Water Flow Is Accelerating, and It Could Have Disastrous Consequences
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Scientists extracted a 5.3 million-year record of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current by drilling sediment cores in the Earth’s most remote waters. Here, ...
Antarctica’s Mount Erebus volcano emits real gold dust
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The frozen continent of Antarctica is, paradoxically, a hotbed of volcanic activity. The ice-capped region is home to some 138 volcanoes nestled ...
Bird flu may have killed THOUSANDS of penguins in Antarctica: Researchers suspect outbreak of deadly H5N1 virus is behind deaths of around 530
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Bird flu may have killed thousands of penguins in Antarctica, researchers have said as they probe a suspected outbreak of the deadly ...
Scientists’ $50BILLION mission to stop ‘doomsday glacier’ in Antarctica from melting and unleashing havoc on the world
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If Thwaites Glacier collapses, it could raise global sea level by as much as 10 feet Preventing warm water from melting it ...
