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I spent a year in Antarctica. Here’s what I learned living through nine months of darkness and -112F temperatures
After a dramatic 1971 incident in which the sole medical doctor at a USSR station had to cut out his own appendix, some countries made appendectomies a requirement for their “winter-over” medical ...
The world can’t afford to ignore the ecological crises unfolding in Antarctica
At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...
The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked
The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...
US teen Ethan Guo detained in Antarctica for landing without permission while venturing on solo flight to 7 continents
Ethan Guo, a 19-year-old aviator from Memphis, was detained and charged with submitting a false flight plan before traversing ...
Antarctica Faces Tense Future as U.S. Science Budget Shrinks
The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...
Antarctica Just Lost a Greenland’s Worth of Ice — And That’s Not the Scariest Part
A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t see coming.
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Hui Te Rangiora: Old Māori Legend Suggests They May Have Discovered Antarctica 1,000 Years Before Europeans
Long before European colonizers sighted the continent, legendary explorer Hui Te Rangiora may have seen Antarctica.
Royal Navy ship given freedom of inland city
A Royal Navy ship has been given a Freedom of the City honour by a city that is about 50 miles from the nearest bit of coast.