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Antarctica

midges

Environment

A swarming asexual midge is island hopping towards Antarctica

Biologists say biosecurity measures need to be stepped up to prevent a non-biting midge reaching Antarctica, because it could radically change the continent

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cartoon penguins

Life

The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica's past

Features

Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice

Environment

Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice

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penguins near research base

Environment

Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins

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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

Video

Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

Video

Penguin

Life

Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard

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penguins

Environment

Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic

Features

Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

Environment

Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

Earth

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Baffin Bay

Earth

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

This photoset is a glimpse into life as an ice watcher – flying long missions over frozen polar terrain to keep tabs on the warming world

Regulars

Earth

Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots

Comment

Earth

A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

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Life

Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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Earth

Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

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