Tsunami alert lifted after massive earthquake leads to evacuations in Chile and Argentina todayheadline
A powerful earthquake with a 7.4 magnitude struck the Drake Passage, a remote stretch of ocean between South America and ...
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Colossal ancient icebergs left grooves on the bottom of the North Sea todayheadline
Tabular icebergs are breaking away from the ice shelves of AntarcticaJames Kirkham City-sized icebergs once drifted past the coast of ...
Read moreDetailsWhy vanishing sea ice at the poles is a crisis for the entire planet todayheadline
Extremely low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctica signal a "new normal" that may accelerate global warming and ...
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Hot methane seeps could support life beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet todayheadline
Researchers collecting rock samples in Antarctica in the 1960sPolar Rock Repository Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on ...
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Antarctic teams drill oldest ice cores yet in search of climate clues todayheadline
The camp at Dome C on the East Antarctic plateau where the Beyond EPICA team are drilling ice coresRob Mulvaney ...
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‘Unexpected’ rate of sea level rise in 2024: NASA
Earth’s oceans rose faster than expected last year as the world experienced its hottest year on record, NASA says.Sea levels ...
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Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low todayheadline
Sea ice on the Arctic OceanShutterstock / Kevin Xu There was less sea ice covering the oceans in February of ...
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Earth wouldn’t have ice caps without eroding rocks and quiet volcanoes todayheadline
Antarctic ice on 1 Jan 2024NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio Earth’s climate isn’t easy to cool down – especially if you ...
Read moreDetailsEdge of Antarctica Has Grown Dramatically Greener
Over the last four decades, vegetation cover on the Antarctic Peninsula has grown tenfold, a new study finds. “The landscape ...
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