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A strong mind was key to surviving the monotony faced by Antarctic explorers enduring the isolation of long, remote winters.
Buildings and human disturbance in Antartica is clustered in an ice-free zone that is essential to most of the continent’s biodiversity.
A record of sea-level change from 400 million years ago in South Africa, reveals how ecosystems and environments collapsed at the South Pole.
For just ten years Antarctica was home to a nuclear power station called “Nukey Poo”.
Without understanding why the ‘fingerprint’ has failed to appear our predictions about global warming - as carbon dioxide concentrations increase - are uncertain.
It’s one of the remotest places on Earth and yet is still claimed by six nations – including Australia.
A cubic kilometer of clear, stable ice could help physicists answer big questions about cosmic rays and neutrinos. Hardy scientists collect data via a unique telescope at the frozen bottom of the world.
This year could well see a new record set for the extent of Antarctic sea ice – hot on the heels of last year’s record, which in turn is part of a puzzling 33-year trend in increasing sea ice around Antarctica…
The astronomical instrument BICEP2 was deployed at the South Pole in 2009 to look for evidence that would support the theory of inflation, which tries to explain how the universe looked a trillionth of…
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