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us/A Landslide Victory for Obama In Antarctica
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Dear Mr. President-Elect, Greetings from Antarctica! I'm about to begin my mission to become the first American in history to reach the South Pole, solo and unaided. I'll start walking N...
us/Why do Oragutans care about global warming?
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30 years ago, the famous naturalist Louis Leaky agreed to send an extraordinary young woman named Birute Galdikas deep into the wilds of Borneo to do the one thing she desired to do more than anyth...
us/Newly identified Antarctic Killer Whales at risk
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A study in the journal Polar Biology concludes that two recently discovered species of Killer Whale inhabiting the Antarctic sea are at risk due to the effects of global warming at the South Pole. ...
us/Arctic tourists evacuated amid melting and unprecedented warming
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If the 21 tourists evacuated from the Baffin Islands yesterday weren't convinced that we're near a climate change tipping point they are now. According to a Canwest new service story out this mor...
us/Massive piece of Ward Hunt Ice Shelf collapses
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Arctic scientists are reporting today that a four-square-kilometer chunk of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf has broken off. As reported in the Globe and Mail:Scientists say the break, the largest on recor...
us/More frequent icebergs could trash Antarctic sea floor
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While not much life exists on the icy surface of the Antarctic, life is teaming undersea and scientists are now worried that more frequent icebergs could pose a real threat to these underwater inha...
us/Something Strange is Happening at the Coldest, Driest Place on Earth
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For someone who has experienced “freaky weather” in the Antarctic up close and personal, reports this week that baby Antarctic penguins are freezing to death due to “freak rain storms,” came as no...
us/Global warming up close and personal on the edge of the earth
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Today we have yet another report about a far off place most people have never heard about being destroyed by the effects of global warming.The massive Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is collapsi...
us/Wilkins Ice Shelf, Antarctica, close to collapse
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island.Prof. David Vaughan of the British Antarctic ...
us/Penguins the Latest Climate Change Canary
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A new study out of the University of Washington has found that penguin populations are plummeting due to climate change, pollution and other factors like fish stock depletion and loss of breeding ...
us/Scott of the Antarctics Will Paint the Antarctic Black
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A very cool Virgin Media short film submission on Antarctica and climate change. Produced by Harvey Parkes, a writer/director who works as part of the northwest film collective Balti and Havana.Ch...
us/New on the Endangered Species List: Perennial Arctic Ice
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The bad news dropped very hard on us today at Desmog: The North Pole could be free of sea ice for the first time in recorded history this summer, according to National Geographic News.And that woul...
us/European Space Agency: Antarctic winter cannot protect Wilkins Ice Shelf
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It's winter right now in the Antarctic, and with temperatures hovering around -91 degrees Fahrenheit, it was a strange sight indeed for the European Space Agency to see a 160 square kilometer chunk...
us/Scientists Discover Vast Cracks in Arctic Ice
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The BBC is reporting that there's new dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap emerging from research during an expedition by the Canadian military. Scientists travelling with the tr...
us/My Trek to the South Pole
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Note: Please welcome our newest blogger, Explorer Todd Carmichael. Check out this video to learn a little more about Todd and read our welcome message here. Soon I’ll be standing at the intersec...
us/Check out My Expedition Earth Facebook Group
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Even us Polar Explorers are on Facebook! While this is where you can find all the updates on my preparations for the trip and daily dispatches when I'm in the South Pole, you can also find them on ...