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Antarctica's Recent Ice Loss Was A "One-In-A-2000-Year Event" Without Climate Change
IFLScience· 3 days agoOnce viewed as a surprisingly stable bastion, the South Pole is starting to show some worrying signs...
How do glaciers grow in world's largest desert? An Alabama professor explains
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAntarctica is the world's largest desert. It is also covered in ice sheets that are 4 kilometers...
University of Alabama professor plays key role in study of 'Doomsday Glacier'
The Tuscaloosa News via Yahoo News· 7 days agoIn that ice age, the northern ice sheet covered all of Canada, New York and into the Midwest and the...
Iron from Glacial Meltwater Could Supercharge Phytoplankton Growth. What Would That Mean for the...
Scientific American· 4 days agoRachel Feltman: Antarctica is the largest, coldest desert on the planet, with snowfall dropping less...
Arctic Roundup: Spring Season Ends With a Flurry
ExplorersWeb via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDespite a slow start to the spring season, May and June saw an increasing number of teams arriving in the far north, particularly on the Greenland ice...
Newly discovered polar shipwreck may contain intriguing artifacts
CNN via Yahoo News· 3 days agoTheory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. In the early 1900s, ...
A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
The Atlantic· 6 days agoThis was a NASA mission. Bayou appointed himself our Neil Armstrong. In the ensuing days, we were scheduled to set up four identical sites in a long...
South Australia’s enigmatic pink sand was born in ice-covered Antarctic mountains, new research...
The Conversation· 5 days agoIn parts of South Australia, long stretches of beach are often blanketed in large patches of pink sand. Strong swells can dump drifts of reddish grains of garnet along the shore – but the origin ...
Ernest Shackleton's Last Ship, Quest, Discovered Off the Coast of Canada
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoFamed explorer Ernest Shackleton had already completed three successful expeditions to Antarctica...
The good news about ‘giant viruses’ found in the Arctic Circle
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 days ago“Giant viruses” sound like some sort of terrifying science fiction creation. But while some of the...