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Antarctica. Photo: depositphotos.com

The time capsule that hides in the ice of Antarctica

An international research expedition is currently drilling in the depths of the Antarctic ice, with the aim of finding out why the ice ages significantly lengthened over a million years ago. Their findings may also help in understanding the rise in global temperatures that we are experiencing today
Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Photo: NASA

Antarctica's "doomsday" glacier: its collapse could cause coastal cities to flood and islands to be swallowed

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Adding 65 cm to the global sea level will completely change the coastlines. To date, the sea level has risen by about 20 cm since 1900, which is already forcing coastal communities out of their homes and exacerbating environmental problems such as flooding, groundwater salinization and habitat loss.
The continental ice sheets at the poles can affect each other, because of the water that flows between them. Photo: Alex Rose – Unsplash

A conversation between glaciers

A study revealed a connection between the melting of the glaciers in the Arctic Circle and those in Antarctica * A similar feedback but in the opposite direction (of increasing ice) took place at the beginning of ice ages
The Ross Ice Shelf plays an important role in stabilizing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Photo: Agustín Lautaro – Unsplash

What is melting the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica?

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On the right - Antarctica as it actually looks - covered in ice. On the left - a map drawn by the British Antarctic Survey with the help of NASA data of the route of the terrain under the ice. Photo: British Antarctic Survey

Antarctica merged into one plate about 11 million years ago

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The crack in the ice shelf Larsen C. Photo: NASA.

Careful, the ice is broken

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Roald Amundsen and his team watch the Norwegian flag at the South Pole, December 14, 1911. From Wikipedia

Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition arrived there 105 years ago today

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Antarctica: The warm water seeps under the glaciers. Photo: shutterstock

Living according to the devil

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Penguin couples in Antarctica. Photo: Tak, Flickr

Search Antarctica

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Antarctica: The warm water seeps under the glaciers. Photo: shutterstock

Sudden ice loss in Antarctica as well

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Glacier in Antarctica from Wikimedia

Additional evidence of global warming is obtained from sea level measurements around Antarctica

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Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. Photo: NASA

NASA: The melting of the ice in West Antarctica seems unstoppable

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Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: shutterstock

Prof. Hagit Afek from Yale University: "Antarctica was once warm and even today, like 50 million years ago, the warming at the poles is faster"

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A polar bear on a glacier. Illustration: shutterstock

Opinion: The damages of warming are already evident after an increase of 0.8 degrees on average, this is not a theoretical issue

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On the right - Antarctica as it actually looks - covered in ice. On the left - a map drawn by the British Antarctic Survey with the help of NASA data of the route of the terrain under the ice. Photo: British Antarctic Survey

What does Antarctica look like under the eternal ice sheet?

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Warming also in the south

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Looking down Ilulissat Fjord towards its source, where the Jakobshavn Isbrae Glacier loses ice to Okiranus. The fjord is studded with glaciers along its entire length (60 kilometers). Photo by Ian Joughin, University of Washington

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing ice rapidly

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Dr. Hagar Landsman (Fles) at the South Pole point. Photo: Weizmann Institute

Science on ice

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Robert Falcon Scott from Wikipedia

History of science - world fame to Robert Scott / Edward G. Larson

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The path of the debris washed up from the shores of Japan in about three years. Figure: NOAA

hot! The animals went crazy

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Drilling the last hole to place the sensors of the ICE CUBE project in the South Pole. Photo: NSF

Construction of the IceCube Antarctic neutrino telescope has been completed

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The "telescope" or rather the neutrino particle detector consists of a series of sensors scattered within a cubic kilometer of ice at the station located at the geographic South Pole

Antarctica is warming much faster than previously thought

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Competition between bad and bad

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How were the Antarctic mountains formed?

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From the Technion to the South Pole

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