Maddie Stone
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Scientists Will Once Again Try To Explore Alien Ecosystem Exposed By Giant Antarctic Iceberg
Last year, a team of scientists embarked on a mission to explore the seafloor exposed when a Delaware-sized iceberg popped off the Antarctic Peninsula in 2017. Frustratingly, their ship had to turn around mid-voyage thanks to impenetrable near-record low Antarctic sea ice levels, another team of scientists will make an attempt.
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Greenland’s Ice Can No Longer Handle Hot Summers
A team of scientists is warning that the double whammy of a naturally recurring weather pattern and rising temperatures is triggering dramatic melting on the Greenland ice sheet — a problem the researchers liken to recent global coral bleaching events, which have been fuelled by the one-two punch of El Niño and climate change.
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This Part Of Antarctica Was Not Supposed To Be Shrinking
When scientists talk about Antarctic melting, they’re usually referring to West Antarctica, where giant coastal glaciers are shedding incredible amounts of water. But across the Transantarctic mountains to the east, there’s a much larger mantle of ice that’s generally thought to be keeping its chill. A new study, however, asserts that East Antarctica is also…
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How Hawaii’s Volcanoes Could Help Us Find Life On Saturn’s Icy Moon
Kilauea’s historically huge 2018 eruption didn’t just transform the southeastern corner of Hawaii’s Big Island. Most of the lava wound up spilling into the ocean, creating an enormous new undersea delta that hardy ocean microbes are already colonizing.