Tag: Antarctica
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Feeling the heat: why the South Pole is warming up so quickly
The South Pole is one of the coldest and most remote regions on our planet. It is a polar desert of long and sunless winters, quasi-continuous frigid winds, and precious […]
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Uncovering an ancient Antarctic rainforest
New research indicates that the icy continent was once home to a temperate rainforest, Shruti Sundaresan reports. When one speaks of Antarctica, we tend to automatically think of snow, ice, […]