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'I’m a pilot with 10,000 flight hours – but I won’t go near this place'
Wildfoot Travel, a travel expert, even seasoned pilots acknowledge that the world’s southernmost continent presents some of ...
Ernest Shackleton's stranded Endurance expedition crew played 'football with the penguins', unearthed logbook and letters reveal
Aubrey Ninnis told his sweetheart of being trapped in pack ice and playing 'too funny for words' football with penguins ...
Ernest Shackleton's stranded crew played 'football with the penguins', logbook reveals
Aubrey Ninnis told his sweetheart of being trapped in pack ice and playing 'too funny for words' football with penguins ...
7 Penguin Facts That Were Hidden for a Century
The world’s first penguin biologist to study a large colony of the animals up close, George Murray Levick, was marooned in 1911 for almost a year on Cape Adare in Antarctica, the site of the world’s ...
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Antarctica is hiding hundreds of massive underwater canyons
Scientists mapped 332 submarine canyons under Antarctica, revealing how they shape ocean flow, ice melt, and global sea level ...
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Tides could help predict when huge icebergs break loose: study
Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...
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Why penguins ride the currents instead of swimming straight home
Magellanic penguins use ocean currents and tides to travel efficiently and forage during their long swim home.
Tides found to trigger massive Antarctic iceberg breakups, study suggests
Ocean tides can trigger city-sized icebergs to break off from Antarctic ice shelves, scientists said on Thursday, offering a ...
Antarctic isolation causes temporary gray matter loss with lingering thalamic changes
Brain researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have detailed temporary reductions in gray matter following prolonged ...
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The power of penguin guano to reduce the effects of climate change in Antarctica
A study published in ‘Nature’ finds that the fecal waste these animals generously spread around the area releases ammonia, a ...
The weird way that penguin poop might be cooling Antarctica
Grist reports that penguin guano in Antarctica may help cool the region by forming clouds through ammonia release, but ...
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Confirmed – Antarctica hides holes the size of Maryland and could release carbon trapped for centuries with serious consequences for global climate
Scientists spotted a massive, dark hole looking down at Antarctica from space in 2016 and again in 2017. This huge gap had opened up in the sea ice in the ...