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- Looking for Life on Mars? Start with Microbes in Antarctica http://www.wired.co.uk/article/life-on-mars-antarctica-microbes 6 comments
- Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/antarctica-sea-level-rise-climate-change/ 86 comments
- Flowers are starting to spread in Antarctica and experts say it's not good news https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/antarctica-flowers-spread-climate-change-828134-20230922 18 comments
- How is the ocean melting Antarctica? We're starting to figure it out https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/how-is-the-ocean-melting-antarctica-were-starting-to-figure-it-out 3 comments climate
- UAE firm planning to tow icebergs from Antarctica to start testing this year https://www.arabianbusiness.com/culture-society/423413-uae-firm-planning-to-tow-icebergs-from-antarctica-to-start-testing-this-year 6 comments worldnews
- Scientists have discovered that antarctica is starting to turn green http://m.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11858956 701 comments worldnews
- After six months of isolation, scientists in Antarctica start developing their own accent https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240223-scientists-in-antarctica-developed-their-own-accent-after-six-months-of-isolation 3 comments anthropology
- Bright spot: Antarctica's ozone hole is starting to heal https://www.yahoo.com/digest/20160702/bright-spot-antarcticas-ozone-hole-starting-heal-10215897 50 comments worldnews
- Flowers are starting to spread in Antarctica and experts say that's not good news https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/antarctica-flowers-spread-climate-change-828134-20230922 18 comments environment
- El Niño May Have Kicked Off Thwaites Glacier Retreat - Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” started losing mass midcentury, around the same time as its neighboring glacier. https://eos.org/articles/el-nino-may-have-kicked-off-thwaites-glacier-retreat 10 comments science
- The latest NASA analysis shows that an ozone hole is starting to grow over the South pole. An ozone destruction process began, as the sunlight and UV radiation reached the very cold (-90°C) lower stratosphere over #Antarctica. https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/ozone-hole-formation-south-pole-2020-fa/ 9 comments worldnews
- Global warming causing 'irreversible' mass melting in Antarctica: scientist | “What we’re seeing with the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, that this starting of the melt, once we reach a certain threshold, will continue despite our efforts to stop it.” - “This will gradually displace people as it goes.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-icemelt/global-warming-causing-irreversible-mass-melting-in-antarctica-scientist-iduskbn20d0nx 78 comments worldnews
- For the past three years, virtually nothing has hatched at Antarctica’s second biggest breeding grounds for emperor penguins and the start of this year is looking just as bleak https://apnews.com/4629dfad58f540229b9bbae3b4581249 2811 comments worldnews
- East Antarctica's glacial stronghold has started to melt, NASA scientists discover - that's not good for sea level rise https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/11/east-antarctica-glacial-stronghold-melting-amid-climate-change 3 comments worldnews
- An engineering firm wants to tow icebergs thousands of miles from Antarctica to quench the driest areas of the world — and it's starting with Dubai https://www.businessinsider.com/engineering-firm-tow-icebergs-antarctica-for-water 11 comments technology
- An engineering firm wants to tow icebergs thousands of miles from Antarctica to quench the driest areas of the world — and it's starting with Dubai https://www.businessinsider.com/engineering-firm-tow-icebergs-antarctica-for-water 29 comments technology
- 70,000 years ago, we started to conquer Eurasia from Africa. 50,000 years ago we arrived in Australia; 14,000 years ago – North America; 4,000 years ago – in the Pacific Islands; In 1821, we checked Antarctica on the list and in 1969 we stepped on the Moon. Next stop: Mars. http://www.absolute-knowledge.com/journeytomars/ 598 comments space