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‘Virtually certain’ extreme Antarctic events will get worse without drastic action, scientists warn
It is “virtually certain” that future extreme events in Antarctica will be worse than the extraordinary changes already observed, according to a new scientific warning that stresses the case for immediate and drastic action to limit global heating.
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‘Everyone should be concerned’: Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest levels ever recorded
With the continent holding enough ice to raise sea levels by many metres if it was to melt, polar scientists are scrambling for answers.
Elizabeth Rush: What Antarctica’s disintegration asks of us
What if we saw Antarctica as a harbinger of transformation rather than doom?
www.nytimes.com
The iciest waters around Antarctica are less icy
An unusual combination of events caused the Weddell Sea to lose more sea ice than in recent years.
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www.nationalgeographic.com
As ice melts, emperor penguins march toward extinction
The flightless birds depend on Antarctica’s frozen sea ice shelves for safety and breeding. But as temperatures rise, the shelves are vanishing.
therevelator.org
Antarctica: Too big to melt
A summer of extremes leaves sobering questions about the state of Earth’s largest store of ice, capable of inundating coastlines worldwide as it melts.
www.newyorker.com
Antarctica’s ice, the one war that the human species can’t lose
Human existence depends on Antarctica’s ice—and it’s now melting.
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