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Scientists investigating how Antarctica’s ice sheets retreated in the deep past have turned to an innovative approach: studying the genes of octopuses that live...
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Scientists revealed Tuesday that they had discovered a vast, hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers that has been “frozen in...
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More than 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves lost volume in 25 years, increasing the risk of sea levels rising and with human-induced warming...
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Melting ice in Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050, new research shows.
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Leading glaciologist Claude Lorius, whose Antarctica discoveries in the 1980s helped prove humanity’s role in global warming, has died at 91. Lorius died on...
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Sea ice in Antarctica shrank to the smallest area on record in February for the second year in a row, continuing a decade-long decline,...
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Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite...
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New research on Antarctica doubles the previous estimates of loss from ice shelves and details how the continent is changing.
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The world's biggest ice sheet could cause "several metres" of sea-level rise over centuries.