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sea creatures

borehole through ice

Environment

Life found beneath Antarctic ice sheet 'shouldn't be there'

Biologists say the inadvertent discovery of sea life on a boulder beneath a 900-metre-thick Antarctic ice shelf challenges our understanding of polar organisms

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dust cloud

Environment

Godzilla Sahara dust storm linked to melting Arctic sea ice

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sky river

Environment

Rivers of air in the sky are melting huge patches of Antarctic sea ice

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Rare bigfin squid found in Australian waters for the first time

Life

Rare bigfin squid found in Australian waters for the first time

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Greenland ice sheet

Environment

Arctic sea ice loss could trigger huge levels of extra global warming

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Superstrong sea sponge could help build better spacecraft

Life

Superstrong sea sponge could help build better spacecraft

Regulars

sea ice

Environment

Winter ice in the Bering Sea is doomed to disappear within decades

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Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans

Earth

Silicon Valley billionaires want to geoengineer the world's oceans

Insight

Marine kaleidoscope shows the beauty of coral reefs

Life

Marine kaleidoscope shows the beauty of coral reefs

Regulars

Climate change may kill off nearly all polar bears by 2100

Environment

Climate change may kill off nearly all polar bears by 2100

Unchecked climate change will doom all but one of the world’s populations of polar bears before the end of the century, as vanishing sea ice increases their annual fasts beyond their limits

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Environment

Arctic explorers find unusually thin ice as a result of climate change

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Last Word

This week’s new questions

Regulars

Life

Why icy moons like Europa are our best bet for finding alien life

Features

Life

The extraordinary deep-sea lifeforms that feast on sunken carcasses

Features

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