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Why we called off hunt for ancient Antarctic life
Geoscientist Martin Siegert says that drilling through 3 kilometres of ice to reveal the secrets of an entombed lake was never going to be easy
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Polar tech uncovers how frozen regions are changing
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Ice sheets of West Antarctica are warming fast
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The last march of the emperor penguins
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Lake life survives in total isolation for 3000 years
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The great thaw: Charting the end of the ice age
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No signs of life from Lake Vostok – so far
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Why sea ice records are poles apart
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World’s most northerly lake comes back to life
Some 2400 years after Kaffeklubben Sø was entombed beneath ice, a slight thaw at this lake in Greenland is allowing algae to return
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It is misguided to cut funding for polar research
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Lush Antarctic past suggests more monsoons in future
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Mutiny at the South Pole?
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Could we geoengineer the climate with CO2?
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