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Japanese whalers hauling a minke whale to the ship in the Southern Ocean

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Japan’s plan to resume commercial whaling could actually help whales

Japan’s move is bad news for whales within its waters, but spells the end of high seas whaling, says Matthew Collis

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A swarming asexual midge is island hopping towards Antarctica

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The mummified penguins that hold the secrets of Antarctica's past

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Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice

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Searching for Antarctica’s penguins, lost meteorites, and oldest ice

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Antibiotic resistance genes are showing up in Antarctic penguins

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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

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Tim Peake: To the ends of the Earth and beyond

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Hundreds of ancient mummified penguins found in Antarctic graveyard

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Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic

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Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

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Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

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Alarm as ice loss from Antarctica triples in the past five years

The loss of Antarctica’s ice has been accelerating ominously since 2012, and could lead to big rises in sea level if the rate of loss keeps increasing

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Join NASA's Operation IceBridge on its icy polar mission

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Why climate engineers are targeting Earth's last pristine spots

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A melting ice shelf can cause rapid ice loss 900 kilometres away

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Weird Antarctic ice may explain how life endured on frozen Earth

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