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In Antarctica discovered a leak of methane, which could accelerate global warming

In Antarctica discovered a leak of methane, which could accelerate global warming

the Diver at the bottom of the Ross sea Millions of years ago, in the time of dinosaurs, now cold Antarctica it was a warm place, where there were large trees and dinosaurs lived. However, over time, the air temperature on the sou...

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2020-07-26

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How nuclear icebreakers work-and why Russia is leading in this direction

How nuclear icebreakers work-and why Russia is leading in this direction

So is the solid earth that there is such a thing as ”Northern sea route”. This transportation artery, passing far to the North. It is simply impossible to go to regular courts. To do this, they are accompanied by a huge atomic mon...

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2020-05-30

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Why is the snow in Antarctica was green?

Why is the snow in Antarctica was green?

Recently, British scientists concluded that rapid climate change leads to the fact that the snow on the shores of the southern continent Antarctica is becoming more green. Using satellite images, researchers have created the first...

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2020-05-21

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40 million years ago Antarctica had lived frogs

40 million years ago Antarctica had lived frogs

the southernmost continent of our planet, Antarctica, was discovered in 1820, when a Russian expedition on boats “Vostok” and “peace” came to her in the area of modern glacier Bellingshausen. Two days later, on the mainland arrive...

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2020-04-27

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In Antarctica discovered a creature that survived 30 glacial periods

In Antarctica discovered a creature that survived 30 glacial periods

On our planet there are places where life seems impossible. Antarctica is one of them. But it was not always so: 68 million years ago the continent was covered by dense forests, visited the dinosaurs and the first mammals. In thos...

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2020-04-25

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How to look cool Antarctica 90 million years ago?

How to look cool Antarctica 90 million years ago?

About 90 million years our planet was quite different. In the so-called Cretaceous period, which will be discussed in this article, on the surface of the earth were a huge dinosaurs and volcanoes erupted more often and stronger th...

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2020-04-04

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What snow in Antarctica has turned red?

What snow in Antarctica has turned red?

In the cold of Antarctic at the moment has over 90 research stations, the inhabitants of which carry out biological, geographical and meteorological research. One of them is the Ukrainian station "Academician Vernadsky", where the...

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2020-02-28

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The temperature in Antarctica has reached a record indicator

The temperature in Antarctica has reached a record indicator

Maybe someday, melted from school days we all know that Antarctica is a continent located in the very South of our planet. It is very different from all other points of our planet, because at least have . It is also known that the...

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2020-02-10

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Under the largest glacier of Antarctica discovered the lake with warm water

Under the largest glacier of Antarctica discovered the lake with warm water

causes mass melting of the Antarctic glaciers. Researchers studying climate change in Antarctica, recorded the presence of unusually warm water under a glacier, whose dimensions correspond to the size of the U.S. state of Florida...

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2020-02-03

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Antarctic mysterious particles introduced scientists to a screeching halt

Antarctic mysterious particles introduced scientists to a screeching halt

Over Antarctica discovered new species of neutrino. a Number of “impossible” particles was discovered during the study of the physical properties of the sixth continent with the Antarctic impulse transient antenna experiment (ANIT...

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2020-01-28

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Global warming may revive ancient viruses

Global warming may revive ancient viruses

Into a thousand year ice was discovered unknown to science viruses. did you Know that the ice of Antarctica and other cold regions of our planet was formed millions of years ago? Inside these could survive the icy remains of ancie...

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2020-01-23

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Under the ice of Antarctica discovered the deepest canyon in the world

Under the ice of Antarctica discovered the deepest canyon in the world

it looks like the largest and deepest canyon on the planet Antarctic ice sheet — the largest mass of ice on our planet. It covers 98% of the ice of Antarctica, which contains 61% of all freshwater on Earth. As the portal in ...

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2019-12-19

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What lies beneath the ice of Antarctica?

What lies beneath the ice of Antarctica?

Under the ice at the South Pole of the planet lies a whole continent — the most poorly understood continent on the planet, which has multiple records. So, it was blowing the strongest winds on the planet, there was recorded...

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2019-09-05

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In the Arctic snows with a piece of plastic

In the Arctic snows with a piece of plastic

We just wrote about what constitutes a serious . So, more than half the inhabitants of the sea and ocean depths, including the plankton-eating microplastics. The world press regularly reports about the animals in the stomachs of w...

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2019-08-17

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What happens if you melt the biggest glacier in Antarctica?

What happens if you melt the biggest glacier in Antarctica?

for anybody not a secret that most of the ice on our planet are concentrated on the South and North poles in the "upper" and "lower" caps of the Earth. In other regions, just too warm for the existence of "permafrost". Can you ima...

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2019-07-10

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If the largest glacier of Antarctica will melt, to a global disaster

If the largest glacier of Antarctica will melt, to a global disaster

for anybody not a secret that most of the ice on our planet are concentrated on the South and North poles in the "upper" and "lower" caps of the Earth. In other regions, just too warm for the existence of "permafrost". Can you ima...

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2019-07-10

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Scientists have found, what it consists of and why the need for green icebergs

Scientists have found, what it consists of and why the need for green icebergs

most of the icebergs painted in white or blue, but in the early XX century, sailors discovered another kind of ice blocks — they have a green tint. Their unusual appearance has long puzzled scientists, because they couldn't find h...

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2019-03-08

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What is really the size of the human footprint in Antarctica?

What is really the size of the human footprint in Antarctica?

over the past decades humanity is trying to explore Antarctica. After the adoption of the Antarctic Treaty 1961 human activity on this continent began to be governed by the law, since scientists began to worry that the presence of...

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2019-03-06

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NASA has found a new iceberg the size of London

NASA has found a new iceberg the size of London

Scientists from the Earth Observatory showed the next iceberg that has formed over many kilometers cracks in the ice shelf brunt. Ice block affects primarily its size: according to researchers, its area is 1.7 thousand square kilo...

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2019-02-20

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Under the glacier, Thwaites found a 300-meter cavity: than it is dangerous?

Under the glacier, Thwaites found a 300-meter cavity: than it is dangerous?

For many years, scientists suspected that the huge Thwaites glacier practically did not attached to the bedrock beneath. It was also of the opinion that it melts — if this is true, the global sea level can rise to dangerous levels...

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2019-02-01

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