There’s a greater need than ever to understand how climate change in Antarctica will have global consequences – but research if getting more difficult.
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A polar scientist explains the changes hunters who rely on the ice are seeing off Utqiagvik, and how those shifts are echoed in satellite data and climate models.
An astrophysicist who spent time doing research at the South Pole gets to the bottom of how things feel at the ends of the Earth.
Emperor penguins survive in a ‘Goldilocks zone’ between too much sea ice and too little. Climate change is having an impact.
Antarctic research has historically been a bastion of men from Europe and North America. Only now is the field opening up to women and people of colour. And there’s a way to go yet.
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