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The world's first hybrid cruise ship is currently on its maiden voyage, an...
Hurtigruten, a Norwegian expedition cruise company, unveiled the world's first hybrid cruise ship earlier this year. It is currently on its maiden voyage to Antarctica with 450 passengers aboard. The...
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A woman who spent 14 months in Antarctica says she went through sensory...
Rachael Robertson is one of very few people who have spent a continuous year in Antarctica — Cool Antarctica, a travel and information website, estimates that just 1,000 people do so each year. From...
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Early dinosaurs laid leathery, soft-shelled eggs, new research shows —...
Scientists discovered fossilized eggs from two different dinosaur species in the Gobi Desert. Unlike previously discovered dinosaurs eggs, these eggs had soft-shells, like turtle eggs.New research...
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Explorers in Antarctica found the largest soft-shelled egg ever seen. It may...
Earlier this month, paleontologists announced the discovery of the largest soft-shelled egg ever found.The researchers think the football-sized specimen, which was discovered in Antarctica, came from a...
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Methane is mysteriously leaking from the sea floor in Antarctica, edging...
Researchers have, for the first time, discovered an active leak of methane gas from under Antarctica's sea floor.Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that warms the planet much more than carbon dioxide...
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Australia's Qantas is reviving its 12-hour sightseeing flights over...
Australian airline Qantas is gearing up to run seven sightseeing flights over Antarctica.The 12-hour, 6,500-mile trips are essentially flights to nowhere — they return to their starting point at the...
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The first US Air Force flight to Antarctica in months is being extra careful...
Summary List PlacementWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first US flight into Antarctica following months of winter darkness arrived Monday with crews taking extra precautions to keep out the...
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Antarctica's Thwaites glacier is in peril, images reveal. The so-called...
Summary List Placement Scientists call it the doomsday glacier.That's partly because the Thwaites, a Britain-sized glacier in western Antarctica, is melting at an alarming rate: It's retreating by...
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Photos reveal penguin mummies discovered at an abandoned nesting site in...
Summary List PlacementRumors reached Steve Emslie's ears that fresh penguin poop had been spotted at a remote cape overlooking the Ross Sea in Antarctica.That surprised Emslie, because there weren't...
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The world's largest iceberg is on track to crash into a small island, where...
Summary List PlacementThe world's largest iceberg might crash into an island populated by penguins and seals, which could cause mass starvation among the animals' young.The iceberg, dubbed A68a, broke...
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Previously untouched by the pandemic, Antarctica has reported its first cases...
Summary List PlacementCOVID-19 has arrived on the most remote continent in the world.Antarctica's isolation had allowed it to ward off the pandemic for the last year, but this week the continent...
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Scientists accidentally found life under 3,000 feet of ice in Antarctica....
Summary List PlacementScientists have found life buried under 3,000 feet of ice in Antarctica, challenging the assumption that nothing could live in such conditions.Scientists previously thought...
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An iceberg the size of Los Angeles just broke off Antarctica — and it could...
Summary List PlacementAntarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf is replete with giant cracks.Scientists have been keeping tabs on the capricious ice for years, and the event they'd been watching out for finally...
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After a massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica, it revealed a long-hidden...
Summary List PlacementSEE ALSO: An iceberg the size of Los Angeles just broke off Antarctica — and it could happen again within weeksThe researchers aboard the Polarstern research vessel found...
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Researchers in the Antarctic experience an isolated, confined, extreme...
Summary List PlacementSpace and humans are not a perfect mix. Scientists are constantly discovering new kinds of health risks associated with space, related to how factors like microgravity and cosmic...
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An iceberg about 70 times the size of Manhattan broke off from Antarctica,...
Summary List PlacementAn iceberg measuring about 70 times the size of Manhattan has broken off from the Ronne Ice Shelf of Antarctica, making it the current largest iceberg in the world, the European...
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Living in Antarctica means no streaming thanks to slow internet that's only...
Summary List PlacementIt is now winter in Antarctica, which means the sun won't rise until September. But those working at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole research station can't count on Netflix to keep...
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2 workers at a remote Antarctic research station describe life cut off from...
Summary List PlacementHome to the South Pole Telescope, the South Pole Atmospheric Research Observatory, and the IceCube neutrino detector, the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is a hub of scientific...
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The air is so dry in Antarctica that chips and popcorn never go stale. It...
Summary List PlacementThe air in Antarctica's remote Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is so dry that chips and popcorn never go stale, according to a worker that is currently living thereThat is...
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Working in Antarctica sometimes means using 'pee bottles' as some buildings...
Summary List PlacementAmazing scientific discoveries are made at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a remote research station close to the ceremonial South Pole in Antarctica. But for those working...
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