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Biggest Ocean Current On Earth Is Set To Shift, Spelling Huge Changes For Ecosystems

Something may be stirring in the world’s largest oceanic current. New research suggests that this vast conveyor belt of cold ...

Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Scientists issue warning over unprecedented occurrences in Antarctica: 'Changing faster than we ever imagined'

As reported by Oceanographic, researchers who met in London in September fear that these impacts may soon be pushing us close ...
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In Antarctica, the impulse to explore clashes with the need to protect

More tourists are flocking to Antarctica than ever before, drawn by a sense of urgency as climate change melts its ice caps.
Inside Climate News

Greening of Antarctica Is Another Sign of Significant Climate Shift on the Frozen Continent

When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square ...

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing ...
Scientific American

Cutbacks to U.S. Antarctic Science Risk Geopolitical Shifts at the South Pole

Antarctica may be remote, but it hasn’t escaped the scans of Google Street View. If you digitally drop into McMurdo Station, the U.S.’s busiest Antarctic installation, and slide along the volcanic ...