Antarctica is starting to look a lot like Greenland—and that isn’t good

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

Mega-iceberg from Antarctica is headed toward South Georgia—here's what could happen

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that ...

Antarctic Ocean of the last ice age reveals how a critical process of CO₂ storage may slow again

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...
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Mega-iceberg from Antarctica on collision course with South Georgia: Harbinger of things to come?

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate change ...
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In 2007, polar ice cap vanished at record clip

(Corrects word in fourth paragraph to "sheet" from "sheath") By Amanda Beck SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Arctic ice at the North Pole melted at a record rate in the summer of 2007, the latest ...