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Drake Passage: The 'most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe' — where waves reach up to 80 feet
The Drake Passage off the West Antarctic Peninsula is a notoriously dangerous channel that connects the Atlantic, Pacific and ...
A huge iceberg broke off Antarctica. What scientists found under it startled them.
It’s the kind of event that when it happens, you leave whatever you’re doing,” said Patricia Esquete, the expedition’s chief scientist.
Updated physical model helps reconstruct sudden, dramatic sea level rise after last ice age
Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic ...
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Fear at isolated Antarctica base as a man is accused of attacking a colleague and making threats
South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological ...
Earth’s oldest yet impact crater found in Australia, where geologists hoped it would be
Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of ...
Fears at isolated Antarctica base as man is accused of attacking a colleague
A member of a South African research team that is confined for more than a year at an isolated Antarctica base was put under psychological evaluation after he allegedly assaulted and sexually harassed ...
In Antarctica, Canadian scientists have a 'momentous' chance to learn more about climate change
It's a case study with high stakes, says Natural Resources Canada scientist Thomas James, who is leading the first all-Canadian expedition to the region. "What happens in Antarctica doesn't stay here, ...
Iguanas floated 5,000 miles from North America to Fiji on vegetation rafts, new study finds
Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...
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Inside a new quest to save the “doomsday glacier”
Arête Glacier Initiative has raised $5 million to improve forecasts of sea-level rise and explore the possibility of ...