Antarctica's amazing disappearing, reappearing ice shelf
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It comes and goes, say boffins The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica has melted and reformed many times in geologically recent history, scientists have found.â¦
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Some Antarctic glaciers are flowing seaward five times faster than they did just two years ago, increasing concerns about rises in sea levels resulting from the warming of Earth&#39;s polar caps.
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Plant material and pink ice found at the bottom of the ice sheet under this wind-swept camp could give scientists an unprecedented look at life that&#39;s
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Scientists present one of the most dramatic forecasts for the disappearance of Arctic summer sea-ice.
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Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning faster than they did in the 1990s and researchers have discovered an unexpected folded section deep beneath the ice cap, findings that may indicate the ice is less stable than had been thought.
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In March 2002, a Delaware-size Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf collapsed. Since then, several glaciers in the region have accelerated.
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Climatic changes appear to be destabilizing vast ice sheets of western Antarctica that had previously seemed relatively protected from global warming, researchers reported yesterday, raising the prospect of faster sea-level rise than current estimates.
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Up and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.
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A remnant of the largest iceberg ever recorded is blocking Antarctica&#39;s McMurdo Sound, threatening tens of thousands of penguin chicks with
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For 5,000 years, great tongues of ice have spread over the 3-mile-high slopes of Puncak Jaya, in the remotest reaches of this remote tropical island. Now those glaciers are melting, and Lonnie Thompson must get there before they're gone.
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Declining oil reserves and soaring prices could see desperate nations overturning a ban on exploration in the last untouched frontier -- Antarctica, an oil expert told a scientific conference.
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The weight of evidence to suggest that some Antarctic glaciers are melting at an increasing pace continues to build. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) has been melting naturally
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Beneath the snow, ice and bitter cold of Antarctica, scientists have discovered a network of lakes that fill and empty with rapidly flowing water.
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The Associated Press  SANTIAGO, Chile   A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared - and scientists want to know why.
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Scientists from the US reconstruct a 40,000-year record of climate change at the South Pole.
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Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" is soaking up less CO2 than it was expected to.
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A 30-mile maze canyons in Antarctica was carved out of bedrock by the catastrophic draining of subglacial lakes during global warming between 12 million and 14 million years ago, according to university researchers who warn a similar event today could have serious environmental consequences.