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We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

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We've dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake

The discovery of preserved carcasses of tiny crustaceans and tardigrades beneath Lake Mercer suggests biologically complex life may survive deep beneath the ice

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Japanese whalers hauling a minke whale to the ship in the Southern Ocean

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Japan’s plan to resume commercial whaling could actually help whales

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A swarming asexual midge is island hopping towards Antarctica

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The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica's past

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Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice

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Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice

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Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins

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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

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Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard

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Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic

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Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

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Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

The Totten and Moscow University glaciers in east Antarctica have lost billions of tonnes of ice since 2002. Between them they could raise sea levels by 5 metres

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots

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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

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