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While greenhouse gases are heating the Earth’s surface, they are also causing rapid cooling well above us, at the edge of space. In fact, the atmosphere greater than about 90 kilometers (56 miles) above Antarctica is cooling at a rate 10 times faster than the average warming on the planet’s …

The South Pole has heated three times faster than the rest of the planet in the past 30 years due to the warmer temperatures of the tropical oceans, new research showed on Monday. Antarctic temperatures vary widely by season and region, and for years the South Pole was thought to …