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'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp
"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink ...
After the asteroid, the earliest bird ancestors thrived in Antarctica
With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...
Cretaceous fossil from Antarctica reveals earliest modern bird
Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico ...
“Death by a Thousand Cuts” – New Research Reveals That Antarctica’s Ice Shelves Are Dying
Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...
The secret history of the Arctic and Antarctica
When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to ...
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Chris Penk to Visit Antarctica for Scientific and Defence Collaboration
Our scientists carry out globally significant research in one of the most challenging environments in the world, alongside ...
Paralyzed from the waist down from a climbing accident, this adventurer is going to ski hundreds of miles across Antarctica
Darren Edwards knows a lot about hopelessness; one minute, he was rock climbing in North Wales about to finish his route, and the next, he was in the hospital paralyzed from the chest down with a ...