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The Antarctic coast where the East Antarctic Ice sheet comes into contact with the sea.

City-size lake found miles below Antarctica's biggest ice sheet

By Ben Turner published

Drilling into the lake will enable scientists to track the history of climate change.

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This Sentinel-1A satellite image shows the C-38 iceberg on March 17, 2022. The iceberg broke off from the Conger Ice Shelf.

Sudden collapse of Antarctic ice shelf could be sign of things to come

By Cameron Duke published

A massive Antarctic ice shelf that covered an area about the size of New York City or Rome just collapsed into the ocean.

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Simultaneous heatwaves have hit both polar regions and caused temperatures to rise by at least 50 degrees Fahrenheit in certain areas.

Alarming heat waves hit Arctic and Antarctica at the same time

By Harry Baker published

Simultaneous heat waves have hit the Arctic and Antarctica, raising temperatures by more than 50 degrees in parts of both polar regions.

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Antarctic sea ice floats in the water in the Lemaire Channel off of Antarctica.

Antarctic sea ice at record low in February, satellite data reveal

By Patrick Pester published

Antarctic sea-ice extent dropped to a record low in the satellite data in February, but it's likely due to natural variation.

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The ‘Endurance’ expedition pictured trapped and frozen in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea shortly after the return of the sun after the long Antarctic winter

Endurance Expedition: Shackleton's Antarctic survival story

By Tom Garner published

Reference The Endurance Expedition was a failed mission to cross the Antarctic on foot, leaving 28 explorers stranded.

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A satellite view of iceberg A68

Antarctica's doomed A68 iceberg dumped 1 trillion tons of water into the ocean over 3 years

By Brandon Specktor published

A new study of iceberg A68 (once the world's largest) charts its entire doomed journey, and shows exactly when it started to melt at an alarming rate

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images of bryozoans found deep beneath antarctic ice shelves

Unimaginable diversity of life discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf

By Cameron Duke published

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An artist's cross-section of Lake Vostok

What is Lake Vostok?

By Becky Oskin, Nicoletta Lanese published

Lake Vostok lies buried under miles of ice in East Antarctica.

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This satellite image captured on Nov. 20 by Landsat 8 shows strange wispy ice formations streaking across the sea near Antarctica.

Rare wispy ice formations streak across the sea near Antarctica in beautiful satellite images

By Harry Baker published

Recent satellite images captured by Landsat 8 show a rare windswept sea ice formation over water in Antarctica.

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One of the largest glaciers in the world, Thwaites Glacier, is also the most affected by climate change.

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' could meet its doom within 3 years

By Mindy Weisberger published

Thwaites Glacier is roughly the size of Florida, and holds enough ice to raise sea levels over two feet. New research shows that the collapse of its ice shelf may be just a few years away.

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