A glacier crawls down a valley at the edge of the Ross Sea near McMurdo Station in Antarctica.Photo: Mark Ralson / AFP (fake pictures) A new document suggests that the East Antarctic ice sheet may not be as stable as we thought. Looking at ancient melting, the study finds evidence …
Read More »The South Pole heats up three times faster than the rest of the Earth
Photo: Mario Tama (Getty) Hot air does not reach Antarctica. as easily as the rest of the world but a new study It has discovered that not even the South Pole is safe from the influences of human-powered climate change. The study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, found that, …
Read More »At least some penguins benefited from the loss of Antarctic sea ice
Adelie penguins in Lützow-Holm Bay, Antarctica, enjoy easy access to food and increase body weight and reproductive success in an ice-free summer.Photo: Yuuki Watanabe (National Polar Research Institute, Japan) Antarctic sea ice has crashed in recent years. It’s nothing to celebrate, but apparently some Antarctic penguins love it. A new …
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