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Seabed sponge forest basks in ice-free Antarctic sun
Global warming threatens to put many species on thin ice. But changing temperatures seems to have sparked new life in a group of Antarctic sea sponges
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Lake Vostok may boast a thriving ecosystem
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South Pole scopes: Witnessing the universe’s birth
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Neutrinos from outer space open new eye in the sky
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Seas will rise no more than 69 centimetres by 2100
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Blue with cold, emperor penguins have a freezing exterior
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Antares rocket launch heats up private space race
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Antarctic freeze paved the way for baleen whales
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Antarctic ice melting faster than in past 1000 years
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Antarctic ice grows as climate warms
Counter-intuitively, global warming may be cooling the surface waters of the Southern Ocean, increasing the extent of Antarctic ice
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The melting of Canada’s glaciers is irreversible
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Mystery bug found in Antarctica’s Lake Vostok
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Why we called off hunt for ancient Antarctic life
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