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be vigilant! Watermelon snow in Antarctica What should we do for the earth?

moshishibie @moshishibie (252) • China 20 Feb 21

After the discovery of "watermelon snow" by the Ukrainian scientific research station in Antarctica last year, recently, photos of the snow turning red and green in Antarctica have attracted attention again. According to the...

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An Icy Farewell Kiss!

Catherine @bluesa (15022) • Johannesburg, South Africa 17 Aug 17

Now, isn't it typical! Our temperature yesterday was 24C ( 75.2F )and we thought we were heading for an early spring. But nope, last night the wind started howling outside. And as I told my family, "yep, here it comes, the icy...

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King Crabs in the Antarctic?

Vincent Summers @KuznVinny (768) • United States 20 Apr 16

I was given a stack of Smithsonian magazines. Now not long back I wrote how for the most part, that magazine seems like a sounding board for pushing evolution on people. And I still feel that way. But there is some good in the...

Are you aware of the risk of the Antartic melting?

jennybianca @jennybianca (12912) • Australia 14 Dec 09

As I live in the southern ocean, we are quite near to the Antartic compared to other countries. The Antartic ice shelf has been melting for years. Last week a huge ice chunk was found that had broken off the Antartic and was...

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Do your tasks affect your dreaming?

jazzsue58 @jazzsue58 (2666) 26 Mar 09

I slept like a log last night, dreaming of flying a Piper aircraft over an Antarctic landscape. It was an Antarctic landscape because I'd been reading H P Lovecraft earlier in the day (Mountains of Madness, spooky) But it was a...

research affecting dreams

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What animal can be found in the Antarctic ?

dominichan @dominichan (302) • Malaysia 10 Nov 08

What kind of animal can be found in the Antarctic ? I only know penguin & whale. Any other ?

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Antarctic ice shelf 'hanging by thread'

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 10 Jul 08

New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday. Images taken by its Envisat...

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If you don't think global warming is effecting us check this out!

ctrymuziklvr @ctrymuziklvr (11057) • United States 25 Mar 08

Huge Antarctic ice chunk collapses....A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday. Satellite images show the...

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The Antarctic, a Desert of Ice All Year Round

fanniefeng @fanniefeng (46) • China 26 Sep 07

The Antarctic is actually a desert. It is the only continent on the eatth without a river or a lake. The Ahtarctic is all ice all year round. The Warmest temperature ever recorded there is zero, at the South Pole. Explorers used...

Antarctic ice sheet thinning. Are you ready for an ocean rise?

Aussies2007 @Aussies2007 (5336) • Australia 29 Mar 07

A PIECE of the Antarctic ice sheet the size of Texas is thinning, possibly due to global warming, and could cause the world's oceans to rise significantly, polar ice experts say. They said "surprisingly rapid changes" were...

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Whom would you choose?

LovingIt @LovingIt (5396) • United States 24 Nov 06

If you had to spend the next 2 years inside a small but fully provisioned Antarctic shelter ... (yes IN the Antarctic) with ONE other person, whom would you like to have with you?If you weren't allowed to choose your spouse or...

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Where is the Antarctic?

cuddiluk @cuddiluk (1523) • Philippines 22 Nov 06

The fifth largest continent, c.5,500,000 sq mi (14,245,000 sq km), asymmetrically centered on the South Pole and almost entirely within the Antarctic Circle. Geology and Geography Antarctica consists of two major regions: W...

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