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The Adventure Blog: Video: BASE Jumping Antarctica

The Adventure Blog: Video: BASE Jumping Antarctica | Antarctica | Scoop.it
It is a preview for a full documentary of an expedition that went to Antarctica back in 2009, where the team of explorers snowboarded, climbed, and BASE jumped from an impressive looking rock tower. ExWeb has a short ...
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Home-Field Advantage Helps Penguins in Warming Antarctic - LiveScience.com

Home-Field Advantage Helps Penguins in Warming Antarctic - LiveScience.com | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Audubon Magazine (blog)Home-Field Advantage Helps Penguins in Warming AntarcticLiveScience.comAs the Antarctic Peninsula warms, penguins that live in the area year-round have a breeding advantage over birds that migrate in.
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Comments RUSSIA, ANTARCTICA, LAKE ... - Giza Death Star

Comments RUSSIA, ANTARCTICA, LAKE ... - Giza Death Star | Antarctica | Scoop.it
The U.K.'s Daily Mail reported on March 16 of this year that Russian scientists and engineers on the Earth's southern polar continent of Antarctica have successfully drilled through to the submerged fresh water lake, Lake ...
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Review: Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A ...

Review: Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A ... | Antarctica | Scoop.it
“Wow!” That, or something similar but perhaps less fitting for a family website, is likely the most common reaction of someone seeing an albatross for the first time. Or, for that matter, Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of ...
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localhistories.org: Antarctica

localhistories.org: Antarctica | Antarctica | Scoop.it
I wrote a little history of Antarctica at www.localhistories.org/antarctica I was going to write its history some years ago but I got cold feet. Posted by localhistories.org at 22:44 · Email ThisBlogThis!
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What Good Is a Playwright in Antarctica? Mat Smart | HowlRound

What Good Is a Playwright in Antarctica? Mat Smart | HowlRound | Antarctica | Scoop.it
So a playwright walks into a bar in Antarctica (usually Gallagher's, the largest of the three bars at McMurdo Station) and has this conversation over and over: A: What do you do back home? B: I'm a playwright.
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Antarctica's Gentoo Penguin Population Growing, Adelie Numbers Decreasing ... - Huffington Post

Antarctica's Gentoo Penguin Population Growing, Adelie Numbers Decreasing ... - Huffington Post | Antarctica | Scoop.it
msnbc.comAntarctica's Gentoo Penguin Population Growing, Adelie Numbers Decreasing ...Huffington PostThe latter two species rely more on ice-loving krill as their food source.
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Leopard Seal Discovers The Hard Way That Nature Photographers Lack Basic Survival Skills

Leopard Seal Discovers The Hard Way That Nature Photographers Lack Basic Survival Skills | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Via Neatorama, a story and video being conveyed by National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen in the context of his new photography book.
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Glacier Subject of Study Sea-level Rise - Hydro International

Our Amazing PlanetGlacier Subject of Study Sea-level RiseHydro InternationalA team of scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is to survey the largest glacier in the world, Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica, to understand how ice is being...
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Antarctica – One Last Postcard

Antarctica – One Last Postcard | Antarctica | Scoop.it
One last postcard from Antarctica. We're on the Drake Passage now, and heading back to Ushuaia before I start the long journey home. What a trip this has been. Daily trips in the zodiacs, time spent on land with fearless ...
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AGU 2011: New Map of Antarctica's Rock Bed

AGU 2011: New Map of Antarctica's Rock Bed | Antarctica | Scoop.it
An updated map of Antarctica's rock bed will help scientists model the response of ice sheets and glaciers to changes in the environment.
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Antarctica Shines as Icy Bastion of Space Science - tDiscuss

Antarctica Shines as Icy Bastion of Space Science - tDiscuss | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Antarctica Shines as Icy Bastion of Space Science http://t.co/nHfjV3ah...
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Challenging Science Stereotypes with Science on Ice - National Geographic

Challenging Science Stereotypes with Science on Ice - National Geographic | Antarctica | Scoop.it
National GeographicChallenging Science Stereotypes with Science on IceNational GeographicDuring the summer breeding season, researchers observe the penguins at four different colonies as the birds build nests, forage for krill and fish, evade...
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Penguins

Penguins | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Brilliant videos - Gallic humour, superbly presented and with a REAL message.
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The lost forests of Antarctica. - What the Papers say

The lost forests of Antarctica. - What the Papers say | Antarctica | Scoop.it
"When Antarctica Was Green: Fossil Plants Reveal Antarctica's Climate. On a continent on which over 99% of the land is now covered with ice sheets, paradoxically some of the most common fossils are those of plants.
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Paper: Antarctica did experience both MWP and LIA | JunkScience ...

Paper: Antarctica did experience both MWP and LIA | JunkScience ... | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Paper: Antarctica did experience both MWP and LIA. Posted on March 24, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment. The Medieval Warm Period was apparently global. Before “the cause” started to contaminate climatology about two decades ago, ...
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Photographer monitors climate effects on polar regions - Outdoors ...

Photographer monitors climate effects on polar regions - Outdoors ... | Antarctica | Scoop.it
His passion for cold climates has taken Nicklen ice diving among leopard seals in Antarctica, traveling hundreds of miles in -40 degree temperatures and shooting photos from his ultralight plane. Nicklen was written 11 stories ...
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Art & Other Adventures with Narca: Midway Atoll!

The track from the runway to our rooms in Charley Barracks is lined with the nests of albatrosses, as far into the dark as our vision penetrates. And indeed, when day comes, the sight of a million albatrosses within the confines ...
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Google Street View shows the Amazon, Antarctica and Thailand ...

Google Street View shows the Amazon, Antarctica and Thailand ... | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Google Street View shows the Amazon, Antarctica and Thailand.
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Latin America backs Argentina over Falklands - By Yana Marul... - Sunday Times.lk

Latin America backs Argentina over Falklands - By Yana Marul... - Sunday Times.lk | Antarctica | Scoop.it
AFPLatin America backs Argentina over Falklands - By Yana Marul...Sunday Times.lkAlso early this year, Patriota said Brazil was working with Uruguay to convene a meeting of the proposed South Atlantic Zone of Peace and Cooperation, bringing...
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Marathon in Antarctica

Marathon in Antarctica | Antarctica | Scoop.it
The marathon is brutal enough as it is. Remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, died at the end. Now imagine completing one in sub-zero temperatures in the snow. That's what thirty-six runners did at the Union ...
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[MARINE_BIOLOGY_INTERNATIONAL] How penguins 'time' a deep ...

Tokyo, JP - Emperor penguins "time" their dives by the number of flaps they can manage with their wings. This is according to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. It aimed to show how the birds ...
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Tropical Temperature Impacts Ice in Antarctica - Laboratory Equipment

Tropical Temperature Impacts Ice in Antarctica - Laboratory Equipment | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Hydro InternationalTropical Temperature Impacts Ice in AntarcticaLaboratory Equipment“This part of Antarctica is affected by what's happening on the rest of the planet, in particular the tropical Pacific,” he says.
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The team behind the British Services Antarctic Expedition - Telegraph

The team behind the British Services Antarctic Expedition - Telegraph | Antarctica | Scoop.it
Continuing our coverage of the Scott centenary expeditions, Christopher Middleton meets the British Services team (The team behind the British Services Antarctic Expedition http://t.co/UAdyURmy...
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Chinese helicopter crashes on Antarctica, crew safe - People's Daily Online

Chinese helicopter crashes on Antarctica, crew safe - People's Daily Online | Antarctica | Scoop.it
People's Daily OnlineChinese helicopter crashes on Antarctica, crew safePeople's Daily OnlineBEIJING, Dec.
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