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Environment

Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic

Jon Copley dived deep for Blue Planet II. He reveals the risks of falling rocks, leaks and fires inside the sub, and highlights the extraordinary "death star"

Features

Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

Environment

Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

News

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

Earth

Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

News

Baffin Bay

Earth

Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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Greenland

Earth

Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots

Comment

A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

Earth

A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

News

Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

Life

Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

News

Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

Earth

Record low Arctic ice linked to freak weather in US, Europe

News

Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands

Earth

Drones reveal huge colonies of 1.5 million penguins on islands

News

Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realm

Earth

Expedition to uncover hidden life in mystery Antarctic realm

In July 2017 a huge iceberg broke away from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf, revealing a marine world that was concealed for thousands of years

News

Earth

Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change

News

Life

Let's hope chickless penguin colony can come back from the brink

Comment

Humans

Scott’s tragic polar selfie: Rare photo goes under the hammer

Culture

Life

Antarctic mystery microbe could tell us where viruses came from

News

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