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  1. Microbes

    Antarctic lake microbes have flexible survival strategies 

    Life teems under the Antarctic ice sheet. In subglacial Lake Mercer, it is surprisingly versatile and isolated from the rest of the world.

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  2. Environment

    Fires in the Amazon forest may melt sea ice in Antarctica

    Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

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  3. Animals

    Some penguins save energy by riding ocean currents

    When navigating home, Magellanic penguins alternate between heading straight back in calm waters and swimming with the flow in strong ocean currents.

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  4. Climate

    Penguin poop gives Antarctic cloud formation a boost

    Penguin poop provides ammonia for cloud formation in coastal Antarctica, potentially helping to mitigate the impacts of climate change in the region.

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  5. Paleontology

    Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

    A few fossilized body parts hinted at an enigmatic bird's close ties to waterfowl like ducks and geese. A newfound skull may bolster that idea.

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  6. Paleontology

    Crystallized dino eggs provide a peek into the tumultuous Late Cretaceous

    Definitively dating the age of a clutch of fossil dinosaur eggs at a famous site in China may let scientists link eggshell features to environmental shifts at the time.

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  7. Climate

    An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the Antarctic coast

    The Conger Ice Shelf disintegrated in 2022. Satellite data leading up to the collapse hint at worrying changes in a supposedly stable ice sheet.

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  8. Plants

    A newly discovered gene helped this moss defy gravity

    A gene called IBSH1 helped spreading earthmoss thrive at high gravity, hinting at how plants adapted to photosynthesize on land.

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  9. Environment

    See how aerosols loft through Earth’s sky

    Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.

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  10. Climate

    Can geoengineering plans save glaciers and slow sea level rise?

    As climate change melts West Antarctica’s glaciers, scientists are proposing bold ideas to avoid devastating sea level rise. Will they work?

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  11. Earth

    NASA images may help track sewage in coastal waters

    Sewage-contaminated water absorbs certain wavelengths of light, leaving a signature that can be detected by space-based instruments, a new study finds.

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  12. Climate

    Hidden Antarctic lakes could supercharge sea level rise

    An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

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