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A search for answers about ice sheet collapse
28 August 2023
Evidence from the Earth’s past is needed to determine the future.
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'Off the charts': Antarctic sea ice plummets to worrying low
27 July 2023
Richard Levy, a principal scientist at GNS Science, warned the planet was losing an important defence in the battle against climate change.
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A massive cavern beneath a West Antarctic glacier is teeming with life
20 April 2023
At the Kamb Ice Stream, a West Antarctic glacier 800 kilometers from the South Pole, you see nothing but flat ice extending in every direction.
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In search of future climate clues beneath Antarctic ice
30 January 2023
NIU professor, student part of drilling project exploring continent’s warmer past. As a kindergartner, Justin Dodd went to “career day” as a geologist.
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Drilling deep to see if we can save Earth’s largest ice shelf and minimise sea level rise
16 January 2023
An ambitious project, ‘Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C warming’, involves researchers from New Zealand, the United States, Republic of Korea, UK, Australia, Italy, Germany, Spain, and…
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Kiwi scientists involved in drill to uncover secrets of Antarctica's past
16 January 2023
New Zealand scientists are planning to drill nearly a kilometre through Antarctic ice and into the earth below, in a bid to answer how much warming the ice sheet can…