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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

A strange discovery, made by polar explorer Robert Scott a century ago, might explain how complex life survived when the planet froze over into “Snowball Earth”

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Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

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Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

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Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands

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Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands

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Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realm

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Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realm

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Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change

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Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change

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Adelie penguins

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Let's hope chickless penguin colony can come back from the brink

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Scott's team of five standing at the pole on 18 January 1912, immediately following their discovery that they were not the first to arrive

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Scott’s tragic polar selfie: Rare photo goes under the hammer

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A lake in Antarctica where the R1S1 strain of Halorubrum lacusprofundi was discovered

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Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

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There are almost 100 new volcanoes hiding under Antarctic ice

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There are almost 100 new volcanoes hiding under Antarctic ice

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Penguin tail feathers reveal secrets of where they swim for food

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Penguin tail feathers reveal secrets of where they swim for food

Conservationists need to track penguin populations, but tagging hundreds of birds is impractical. A technique borrowed from forensics offers a solution

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A massive iceberg just broke off Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf

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Accelerating Antarctic crack will hasten calving of huge iceberg

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Antarctic sea ice is very low – but don’t jump to conclusions

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Global sea ice is at lowest level ever recorded

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