The Doomsday Glacier, predicted to raise global sea level by more than half a meter, could be exposed to more warm ocean water than previously thought.
Antarctica
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Antarctic Ice Doughnuts May Hold the Key to Shelf Collapse
The first direct record of ring fractures in Antarctic ice shows how the phenomenon could cause rapid ice shelf collapse.
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Seals Help Scientists Make Discoveries in Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea
By analyzing hydrographic information gathered by seals and an undersea glider, researchers found new meltwater currents, as well as a new seafloor trough.
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Confined at Sea at the End of the World
Embedded on a research cruise in the Antarctic, a journalist joins a scientists’ “summer camp.”
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Antarctic Meteorites Are Going, Going, May Soon Be Gone
If warming ice gobbles up meteorites, science may lose a cheap source of space rocks.
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Núcleos de hielo de la Antártica capturan la contaminación de los metales pesados y su historia
Un núcleo de hielo que tiene registro más de 2 milenios, sugiere que la minería y la metalurgia aumentaron y disminuyeron con acontecimientos como las guerras y las epidemias.
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Holes in Ross Sea Ice Grow and Shrink in Unexpected Cycle
Changes in polynya area in the Ross Sea region off Antarctica follow a previously unidentified 16-year periodicity.
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Drilling into Antarctica’s Past
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted rapidly around 8,000 years ago. Could that event foretell the future?
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La acidez del océano antártico aumentará rápidamente a finales del siglo
Nuevos estudios muestran que los niveles de acidez podrían llegar a duplicarse para el 2100, poniendo en peligro los ecosistemas frágiles del gélido Océano Austral.
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Speed of Ice Shelf Rifting Controlled by Ocean-Ice Interactions
Scientists report the fastest rate of rift extension yet observed for an Antarctic floating ice shelf and explain why it is far slower than rates expected for brittle ice deformation.