NASA using asteroid's close flyby to test warning network
NASA is using an asteroid's close flyby to test Earth's warning network for incoming space rocks.
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Secrets of hidden ice canyons revealed
We are all aware that Antarctica's ice shelves are thinning, but recently scientists have also discovered huge canyons cutting through the underbelly of these shelves, potentially making them even more fragile. Thanks to ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2017
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The wind sublimates snowflakes in Antarctica
Researchers have observed and characterized a weather process that was not previously known to occur in Antarctica's coastal regions. It turns out that the katabatic winds that blow from the interior to the margins of the ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 25, 2017
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Warm Antarctic caves harbour secret life: scientists
A secret world of animals and plants—including unknown species—may live in warm caves under Antarctica's glaciers, scientists said Friday.
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2017
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More 'losers' than 'winners' predicted for Southern Ocean seafloor animals
A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more 'losers' than 'winners' over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. The results are published in the journal ...
Environment
Sep 4, 2017
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Record-low 2016 Antarctic sea ice due to 'perfect storm' of tropical, polar conditions
While winter sea ice in the Arctic is declining so dramatically that ships can now navigate those waters without any icebreaker escort, the scene in the Southern Hemisphere is very different. Sea ice area around Antarctica ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2017
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Student's idea leads to Antarctic volcano discovery
An Edinburgh student has helped identify what may be the largest volcanic region on Earth.
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2017
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Cows in Antarctica? How one expedition milked them for all their worth
Domestic animals are rarely associated with Antarctica. However, before non-native species (bar humans) were excluded from the continent in the 1990s, many travelled to the far south. These animals included not only the obvious ...
Other
Aug 14, 2017
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Stronger winds heat up West Antarctic ice melt
New research published today in Nature Climate Change has revealed how strengthening winds on the opposite side of Antarctica, up to 6000kms away, drive the high rate of ice melt along the West Antarctic Peninsula.
Earth Sciences
Jul 17, 2017
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Video: Antarctic explorer and polar biologist discusses one of history's largest iceberg breaks
University of Alabama at Birmingham polar biologist and Antarctic explorer, Jim McClintock, Ph.D., provided advance insight into the Larsen C ice shelf break that occurred sometime between Monday, July 10 and Wednesday, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2017
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