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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expected

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may have survived an even warmer period than it is experiencing now

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The partially fossilised whitebark pine trees

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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains

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Kenneth Libbrecht creates perfect designer snow crystals

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Kenneth Libbrecht: How to grow a perfect snow crystal

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Canton Z?rich, Switzerland Ice has formed around a waterfall near Gibswil. Icicles growing from the top, and ice formations growing from the bottom have coalesced into one continuous column. Page 16 + 17

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Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth's ice formations

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Melting permafrost makes 'drunken forests' store less carbon

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Why scientists scanned giant hailstones in a dentist's office

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Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate

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Endurance THE DISCOVERY OF SHACKLETON'S LEGENDARY SHIP By John Shears and Nico Vincent

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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship

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91av recommends a moving Antarctica memoir, Breaking the Ice

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91av recommends a moving Antarctica memoir, Breaking the Ice

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Rising land under Antarctica could slow sea level rise

Antarctica’s melting ice sheet is relieving pressure on the land beneath, allowing it to push upwards in a way that could slow sea level rise in coming centuries – but only if greenhouse gas emissions are low

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Glaciers in the Andes are the smallest they’ve been for 130,000 years

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Pen Hadow: Climate change is making my epic Arctic crossing impossible

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Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping

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Weird form of 'dangling' ice spotted in space for the first time

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