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When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean could kick warming back into gear.

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The Trump administration and Congress, seeking to improve security, have approved funding for eight icebreakers and are ...

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder identified a process that caused a glacier in Antarctica to retreat faster than ...

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Antarctica’s glacier retreated at an unprecedented speed, shrinking 25 kilometers in just 15 months. Find out how.