Antarctic exploration

Melting glaciers are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have found. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

The Great Ocean Slowdown: How Antarctic Ice Loss Is Reshaping the Climate

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New research finds that melting ice in Antarctica is weakening the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) and could lead to worsening climate extremes, disrupting marine ecosystems, and reducing the ocean's ability to absorb carbon by 2050.
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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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: Melting ice in West Antarctica seems unstoppable

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Antarctic Peninsula. Photo: shutterstock

Prof. Hagit Afek of 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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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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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
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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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A large crater has been discovered under the Antarctic ice sheet that is responsible for the extinction since 250 m years ago

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The Secret Rivers of Antarctica

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Antarctica: Iceberg B-15A broke up

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A huge iceberg has collided with an ice tongue in Antarctica

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Antarctica: the giant glacier changed direction and ran aground

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A collision between two giant glaciers in Antarctica is expected today or tomorrow

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Thousands of penguins in Antarctica are in danger of dying of starvation

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The Antarctic ozone hole approached its size a year ago, still below the 2000 peak

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Tests are planned at Lake Vostok in Antarctica

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New research reveals that 35 million years ago there was no ice on the Antarctic continent

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2,800-year-old frozen bacteria from an ice-covered lake in Antarctica have come back to life

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