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Chilling out in the coldest place on Earth
Vostok Station in Antarctica holds the record for the coldest place on the planet, at -89.2 °C – but it could get colder still
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Pictures of the great alone: Scott and Shackleton’s Antarctic
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Antarctica was climate refuge during great extinction
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Seas could rise 1.4m, warns Antarctic climate review
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How Antarctica grew its ice – and lost its hanging gardens
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Satellites spot new penguin colonies by their poo
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Why Antarctic ice is growing despite global warming
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Polar ‘bugs’ may explain how life survived snowball Earth
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Alpine mountain range revealed beneath Antarctic ice
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Ocean survey reveals hundreds of ‘bipolar’ species
The number of identical species that live at both poles surprises scientists and raises the question: how do they manage to cross the vast oceans?
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Even Antarctica is now feeling the heat of climate change
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Gallery: Visions of the ice caps before climate change
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Antarctic islands surpass Galapagos for biodiversity
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Mini Lake Vostok yields clues to ancient life
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