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Antarctica team to search world’s oldest ice for climate change clues
Scientists are setting out to drill for the world’s oldest ice, in a bid to shed light on a dramatic tipping point in the world’s climate 900,000 years ago
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The race to see the start of time in the first light of the universe
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Life
We’ve dug up tiny animals from beneath a frozen Antarctic lake
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Japan’s plan to resume commercial whaling could actually help whales
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Environment
A swarming asexual midge is island hopping towards Antarctica
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Life
The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica’s past
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Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice
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Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins
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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond
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Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard
On a peninsula in east Antarctica there are hundreds of mummified Adélie penguins that died centuries ago, and it seems extreme weather was to blame
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Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic
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Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought
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Earth
Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years
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