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Earth wouldn鈥檛 have ice caps without eroding rocks and quiet volcanoes
Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes form
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Antarctic ice sheet may be less vulnerable to collapse than expected
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Melting ice reveals millennia-old forest buried in the Rocky mountains
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Kenneth Libbrecht: How to grow a perfect snow crystal
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Remarkable images capture the diversity of Earth’s ice formations
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Melting permafrost makes ‘drunken forests’ store less carbon
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Why scientists scanned giant hailstones in a dentist’s office
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Lakes are losing winter ice cover at an astonishing rate
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Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton鈥檚 doomed ship
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New Scientist recommends a moving Antarctica memoir, Breaking the Ice
The books, TV, games and more that New Scientist staff have enjoyed this week
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Rising land under Antarctica could slow sea level rise
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Glaciers in the Andes are the smallest they鈥檝e been for 130,000 years
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Pen Hadow: Climate change is making my epic Arctic crossing impossible
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Melting sea ice is hindering, not helping, Canadian Arctic shipping
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