earth sciences
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Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Level Since 1970s
Sea ice around Antarctica has dropped to the lowest level in more than 40 years, according to satellite data from the National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
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The UK’s History Is Disappearing With Its Peatlands
Climate change is coming for the UK’s history.
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Boaty McBoatface Is Set to Confront Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
The world’s cutest submersible is about the visit the world’s most dangerous glacier. An international team of researchers set off from Chile on a 65-day voyage to Antarctica. There, they’ll deploy Boaty McBoatface and a host of other instruments to explore what’s going on underneath Thwaites Glacier, one of the horsemen of the sea-level-rise apocalypse.
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Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier Is Close to Becoming Unhinged
There’s nothing like sitting through a series of presentations about all the ways one of the most imperiled glaciers on Earth to get the blood flowing.