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Topic: Antarctica (page 2)

This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

200 years of exploring Antarctica

Dan Morgan - The Conversation
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

March to extinction

Stephanie Jenouvrier - The Conversation
Tourists visit Cuverville Island, Antarctica, on March 04, 2016. The Antarctic tourism industry is generally considered to have begun in the late 1950s when Chile and Argentina took more than 500 fare-paying passengers to the South Shetland Islands aboard a naval transportation ship. The concept of 'expedition cruising,' coupled with education as a major theme, began when Lars-Eric Lindblad led the first traveler's expedition to Antarctica in 1966. Prior to this, human activity in Antarctica was limited to the early explorers, those seeking fortune in the exploitation of seals and whales, and more recently to scientific research and exploration. Antarctica's physical isolation, extreme climate and remarkable wilderness values are a great part of its attraction for tourism. AFP PHOTO/EITAN ABRAMOVICH / AFP / EITAN ABRAMOVICH (Photo credit should read EITAN ABRAMOVICH/AFP/Getty Images) (Eitan Abramovich/AFP/Getty Images)

Establishing MPAs in the Southern Ocean

Seth Sykora-Bodie - Massive Science
(Richard Waitt, U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

Scientists: Spray snow on Antarctica?

Molly Enking - Grist
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FILE - This Nov. 11, 2016 file photo shows Blood Falls, bottom left, and the Taylor Glacier near McMurdo Station, Antarctica. (Mark Ralston/Pool Photo via AP, File) (AP)

Ice to know ya

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Female researchers often harassed

Carinya Sharples - Mongabay
In this Jan. 24, 2015 photo, snow surrounds buildings used by Chile's scientists on Robert Island, part of the South Shetland Islands archipelago in Antarctica. Temperatures can range from above zero in the South Shetlands and Antarctic Peninsula to the unbearable frozen lands near the South Pole.(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) (AP)

#MeToo in Antarctica

Eve Andrews - Grist
This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

Are we headed for an ice apocalypse?

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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(AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Harassment hits every continent

Eve Andrews - Grist
(Richard Waitt, U.S. Geological Survey (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

Antarctica's volcanoes

Keith A. Spencer
The rift in November 2016 spanning 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide, and about a third of a mile deep. (AP/John Sonntag)

the trillion-ton iceberg

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
(AP Photo/David Goldman, File) (AP)

May continues warm streak

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
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Climate of Denial

Charlie May
The view from Station Obama, located off the Antarctic Peninsula. (Natasja van Gestal/Northern Arizona Univiversity)

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (John Sonntag/NASA via AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
Lone penguin standing on ice floe (Getty Images/Andrew Peacock)

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
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FILE - In this March 10, 2010, file photo, a 25-foot harbor patrol boat passes by the 399-foot U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star as it sits moored at a dock in Seattle. The United States' last vessel capable of breaking through the heaviest ice of the Arctic Circle, and resupplying the U.S. polar research station there, is scheduled to leave San Francisco Bay on Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. While Russia and China have dozens of icebreakers, opposition in Congress to funding means the U.S. has just one heavy-duty one, already a decade past its decommissioning date. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) (AP)

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central

Brian Kahn - Climate Central
NASA's DC-8 flies over the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, October 26, 2010. (Reuters/Michael Studinger)

Devastating new climate study

Michael Garofalo

Prachi Gupta
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Sarah Gray
This undated handout photo provided by NASA shows the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctic. Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. ((AP Photo/NASA))

Sarah Gray
(Andrzej Gibasiewicz/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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