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After completing 75 marathons, 65-year-old Laurie Copeland, of Jensen Beach, needed a new challenge. She found it in an unlikely destination: The North Pole. Copeland will leave the heat of South ...

A recent study found that four large glacier basins in East Antarctica have experienced substantial ice growth over the past ...

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But as the air and ocean around the South Pole have warmed over the past few decades, icebergs calve off faster and more often. The meltwater on top weakens the ice, and the warmer ocean makes the ...

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Neutron monitors are smaller, and some do actually exist at the North Pole. But the North Pole is simply too fickle to build a stable 1 billion ton vat of ice hooked up with high tech monitors.

The South Pole is located on the frozen continent of Antarctica, resting atop a large ice sheet, whereas the North Pole is located in the Arctic Ocean and is distinguished by floating sea ice.

That’s why, from 2004 to 2011, the IceCube collaboration instrumented a cubic kilometer of South Pole ice with over 5,000 light-detecting modules. And in the 13 years since it turned on, IceCube has ...