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Antarctica: Ice is breaking down from below
Scientists are closely monitoring the phenomenon of massive Antarctic ice sheets that are breaking and melting.
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The iceberg sank the Titanic with a lifespan of 100,000 years
Scientists believe the iceberg, the culprit that pierced and sank the Titanic in 1912, originated in the snowy southwest of Greenland and fell into the sea more than 100…
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Giant iceberg kills 150,000 penguins
Scientists estimate that 150,000 Adelie penguins living along the Antarctic coast have died after an iceberg larger than the city of Rome, isolating their habitat, makin…
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The scary truth about black ice near the Arctic
These are the darkest ice sheets ever recorded in history.
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Antarctic glaciers are melting faster
According to the report, the six giant glaciers of Antarctica are melting at a rapid rate with the amount of melting ice increasing by 77% between 1973 and now.
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Antarctic ice will melt quickly in the next decades
The ice melting situation in Antarctica, which is considered a leading threat to sea level rise, will continue for decades or even centuries.
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Latest pictures of the Antarctic icy region
Journalists of Guardian (UK) magazine sent the latest images in December 2013 of the Antarctic icy land during the 2013-2014 expedition of MV Akademik Shokalskiy (Russia…
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The iceberg is about the size of Singapore
A large iceberg has just separated from Antarctica and is being monitored based on currents and winds, to avoid breaking international sea routes.
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Canada: Exploiting clean water from icebergs
Every summer, the experienced seafarer Ed Kean, 53, set out for the North Atlantic to collect ice sheets off the Greenland glacier and drift south.
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Discovering the 'massive' iceberg in Antarctica
A giant iceberg, about eight times the size of Manhattan (USA) and across the city of Hamburg (Germany), broke out in an Antarctic glacier.
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Antarctic ice is melting from the bottom of the ice
Scientists have long known that ice shelves are melting and that the cause of this phenomenon is due to shattered icebergs off the continental shelves.
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The Andes glaciers narrowed the record
New research by scientists who have published glaciers in the Andes region of South America has been narrowed to a record over the past 300 years.
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Revealing the iceberg sank the legendary Titanic
The giant iceberg photograph taken by Captain WF Wood on the SS Etonian on April 12, 1912 is most likely the only picture of the iceberg that sinks the legendary Titanic.
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America takes advantage of Arctic ice to track submarines
The Arctic ice is melting at the greatest speed in history and this speed tends to increase. That situation can make military and commercial activities more frequent in…
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The iceberg was torn from Greenland
A glacier twice the size of Manhattan (USA) was torn off one of Greenland's largest glaciers, the latest sign of a dramatic change in this warming polar island.