physical geography
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Biologists Shocked to Find Millions of Icefish Nesting Near Antarctica
Deep-sea biologists were stunned to find the largest known fish breeding ground, a discovery made last year near Antarctica. Details of the incredible find were published today, with researchers describing a sprawling colony of millions of icefish on seafloor of the Southern Ocean.
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Life-Threatening Cold Grips the Northern Rockies and Midwest
The U.S. is in a race to cram in as much unhinged weather as possible before the year ends. The latest addition to the trophy case: bone-chilling cold in the Northern Rockies and Midwest, where wind chill values could reach minus-50 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-46 degrees Celsius) over the next two days, with the freeze lingering…
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We’re Turning the Arctic Into a Trash Dump
Piles of new trash on Arctic shores, rain in unprecedented places, noises from ships disrupting wildlife: Human influence has made the Arctic unrecognizable from what it looked like even just a decade ago. That’s the verdict of the new Arctic Report Card, which scientists presented on Tuesday.
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Space Agencies Are Tracking Two Explorers En Route to Antarctica’s ‘Pole of Inaccessibility’
Two men are three weeks into an expedition to Antartica’s Pole of Inaccessibility, an isolated spot that is 901 km from the South Pole. The pair are working in collaboration with NASA and the European Space Agency as they record the psychological and physiological effects of the journey, data that the space agencies believe could…