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Antarctica faces increasing rainfall threats leading to sea level rise and penguin colony collapse.

Very little is known about rainfall in Antarctica; precipitation falls as snow on the bitter cold ice-covered continent. But during the austral summer of 2013-2014, an Adélie penguin colony near Dumont d’Urville station on coastal Adélie Land experienced “unusual and dramatic rainfall event that occurred on January 1, 2014, and that was...

April 22, 2021

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Subglacial lakes in the damaged Doomsday Glacier are draining, refilling, and draining again.

Antarctica researchers have become alarmed by a new finding that shows sub-glacial lakes under the Thwaites glacier are draining a significant amount of water to the bedrock under miles thick with ice. Once the lake water reaches the bedrock, it lubricates the glacier enough to create frictional heat at the bed...

December 28, 2020

Antarctica faces increasing rainfall threats leading to sea level rise and penguin colony collapse.

Subglacial lakes in the damaged Doomsday Glacier are draining, refilling, and draining again.

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