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Japanese tsunami broke the Antarctic ice
The tsunami on March 11 in Japan was so powerful that it broke many large blocks of ice in Antarctica, a few thousand kilometers from Japan.
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Antarctica is rising
New Hampshire reports Donald Argus, a scientist from the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), and colleagues using global positioning satellites data for 15 years to track Antarc…
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Earth is belly fat because of climate change
The ice in Antarctica and Greenland melting at 382 billion tons per year is creating a large amount of water flowing into the oceans. This amount of water is cornered to…
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Changes at the two poles of the Earth affect the climate
Ice and snow on the two poles of the Earth have dramatically reduced human, animal and plant life as well as the circulation cycles of the atmosphere and oceans.
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The first time the map covered the entire Antarctic region
Chinese scientists became the first to successfully map the entire area of Antarctica at a scale of 1: 100,000.
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Add a giant iceberg from Antarctica
A giant iceberg about the size of Luxembourg (Western Europe) that broke off from the eastern South Pole earlier this week may threaten marine life, scientists warn the…
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Revealing information about the mountain range
International scientists have published the first data on the mysterious giant mountain range deep beneath the ice at the southernmost tip of the earth.
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Melting ice in Greenland and Antarctic islands
Recently, space satellites have provided scientists with the most comprehensive picture of rapidly moving glaciers along the Antarctic and Greenland coasts.
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Ozone hole ... is shrinking
World Meteorological Organization (WWO) predicts ozone depletion in Antarctica, this year, is likely to be smaller than the loss in 2008.
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Antarctic glacier is thinning with alarming speed
Scientists say the huge glacier in Antarctica is getting thinner and thinner. Glaciers around Pine Island in the West Antarctica are twice the size of Scotland, which is…
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The threat of ice melting from the West Antarctic ice sheet may be less than expected
A recent study said that, while all or part of the western Antarctic ice sheet melted due to global warming, the sea level in the US coastal areas would rise by 25%. The…
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Antarctica lost bigger ice mass than Singapore
An area of about 700 square kilometers in the southernmost part of the earth has crumbled into ice sheets.
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'Decoding' origin of Antarctic dust
British scientists recently claimed to have identified the origin of the dust that lies in the ice blocks at the Antarctic arc.
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The warming climate affects the Antarctic food chain
Rapid climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula has caused simultaneous changes in the region's biological productivity.
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Climate change affects life on the Antarctic Peninsula
Antarctica has long been thought to be one of the fastest warming locations on Earth.