Coast Guard icebreaker deploys to Antarctica in support of Operation Deep Freeze
SEATTLE — The Polar Star (WAGB 10), a Seattle-based US Coast Guard Cutter, departed Friday for a months-long deployment to ...
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Antarctica breakthrough: Bizarre creatures ‘like nothing seen before' discovered below ice
Antarctica, the frozen continent at the edge of the world, is home to breathtaking mysteries and untouched landscapes. During ...
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Geoengineering Plan To Build Giant "Curtain" Around Antarctica Could Spark Huge Trouble
With the world’s polar regions melting at a dizzying rate, scientists have toyed with the idea of constructing giant ...
Update on Penguin Who Swam From Antarctica to Australia Has People in Their Feelings
Normally, Gus should weigh about 100 pounds, but when he was found on that Australian beach, he only weighed 51 pounds. In ...
The Inertia on MSN4d
Antarctica Is the Canary in the Global Coal Mine, and Scientists Are Terrified
Hundreds of concerned scientists came together in Australia recently to discuss how we can save Antarctica in what's being ...
Antarctica may have once been covered by a jungle of trees, new study shows
Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and ...
"Gus," emperor penguin found on Australian beach after swimming from Antarctica, released at sea after 20 days of care
The only emperor penguin known to have swum from Antarctica to Australia was released at sea 20 days after he waddled ashore ...
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Swirls and scoops: Antarctica's upside down ice-scape we had no idea existed
When scientists peered beneath one of Antarctica's floating ice shelves, they were surprised to find an upside-down landscape of peaks, valleys and plateaus. "We were surprised – we had to ...
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Emergency meeting reveals the alarming extent of Antarctica's ice loss
Antarctica's melting ice could raise sea levels significantly. Scientists urge urgent greenhouse gas reductions globally.
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Only 1% of Tourists Fly to Antarctica From This Country — Here’s How You Can Do It
This type of journey usually starts in Cape Town, South Africa, where you fly private to an ice runway on mainland Antarctica ...
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What does Antarctica's past reveal about climate?
Wow, a recent article in The Baltimore Sun reports that fragments of amber have been found in Antarctica and it was suggested ...
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Antarctica’s first known amber whispers of a vanished rainforest
The only continent where amber had not been found no longer has that distinction, thanks to a sediment core drilled just ...