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Antarctica
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Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future
Drilling for ice cores helps reveal the health of the Antarctic Nerilie Abram If all our fear and…
AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins
Adélie penguins in Antarctica Prof. Heather Lynch Artificial intelligence can help accurately map and track penguin colonies in…
Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty,…
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests
Seawater is pumped onto the snow covering the sea ice in an effort to thicken the ice Real…
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse
The melting of Thwaites glacier is expected to accelerate International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration A six-year investigation into the…
Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals a permanent shift
Sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Alamy For the second year in a row, Antarctic sea…
The Antarctic’s polar vortex could be about to split in two
A satellite view of Antarctica Science History Images / Alamy Antarctica’s polar vortex could be about to split…
Melting Antarctic ice could actually slow sea level rise
An ice shelf on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Rising…
Warm water seeping under Antarctic ice sheets may accelerate melting
Aerial view of an ice sheet in Antarctica David Vaughan/BAS Antarctica’s melting ice sheets may retreat faster as…
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
On April 12, 2019, Boston University finally fired David Marchant for sexually harassing Willenbring. (The university said it…