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Antarctica: Drone captures sea ice edge during Turkish Arctic expedition in Norway's Svalbard. flip.it/MQOCyE

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Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change flip.it/t6ET8g

Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change

The straits are not okay.Sea levels are just the start of how climate change will upend the ocean. Rising temperatures are also threatening a critical artery that runs through the ocean known as the …

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What centuries-old whaler logs can tell us about why bowheads struggle today flip.it/d0_P9m

What centuries-old whaler logs can tell us about why bowheads struggle today

The brutality of centuries of whaling is perhaps best revealed through the banality of how whalers wrote about it."This fish is an eight-foot three incher … got about eight tons of blubber off her," …

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Antarctic Sea Ice Enters 'Shock' Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through flip.it/5sm27q

Antarctic Sea Ice Enters 'Shock' Decline as Ocean Heat Breaks Through

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming.Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen seawater that …

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You Can Once Again Watch Surfers Ride This Epic River Wave in the Middle of Munich flip.it/JxcvBI

You Can Once Again Watch Surfers Ride This Epic River Wave in the Middle of Munich

The famous Eisbach river wave has reopened after months of closure and controversy.After months of uncertainty about the future of Munich’s urban wave, Mayor Dominik Krause this month announced that …

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Scientists Caught Suckerfish Diving Into Manta Rays' Rear Ends flip.it/3NJR1S

Scientists Caught Suckerfish Diving Into Manta Rays' Rear Ends

Remoras are pretty weird fish, but a new study shows they really have no boundaries when it comes to mooching off their manta ray hosts.These tropical suckerfish are best known for hitching a ride on...

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Killer Whales Swarm Surfers in Remote Bering Sea (Video) flip.it/BVwRuq

Killer Whales Swarm Surfers in Remote Bering Sea (Video)

Orcas suddenly appear around Noah Wegrich, Pete DeVries and crew as they chase a perfect left point on a remote Alaskan island in the Bering Sea.The orca, or killer whale, is an apex predator of the …

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Arctic Scientists Discover Previously Unknown Deep-Sea Ecosystem Thriving on the Arctic Seafloor flip.it/mwnDi6

Arctic Scientists Discover Previously Unknown Deep-Sea Ecosystem Thriving on the Arctic Seafloor

An international team of scientists led by researchers from the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) has discovered a previously unknown deep-sea ecosystem of extreme lifeforms thriving on the Arctic...

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33 Vintage Images Of The First Explorations Into The Arctic flip.it/d9b.fY

33 Vintage Images Of The First Explorations Into The Arctic

Click here to view slideshowSeeing the North Pole and exploring the surrounding Arctic waters have been the desired goals of many adventurers throughout history.Whether it was to navigate the...

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One of the Most Complete Human Ancestors Ever Found Isn’t Who We Thought It Was flip.it/ekIPsu

One of the Most Complete Human Ancestors Ever Found Isn’t Who We Thought It Was

New research challenges the previous identification of a famous fossil dubbed "Little Foot."In 1998, researchers discovered one of the most complete known human ancestral fossils in South Africa’s...

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The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show flip.it/tM195v

The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show

The Arctic is a dramatically different place than it was 20 years ago, when scientists first began giving it an annual checkup—and its current state is dire.The first Arctic Report Card was released …

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AI and underwater recordings reveal bowhead whale breeding grounds in Arctic sea ice flip.it/74q__R

AI and underwater recordings reveal bowhead whale breeding grounds in Arctic sea ice

If bowhead whales produce particularly varied and diverse calls in one area, it is very likely that the area is a breeding ground. The species occurs exclusively in the Arctic Ocean and is therefore …

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Scientists drop microphones to Arctic seabed, then 4m-long animals with huge tusks appear flip.it/AXUq34

Scientists drop microphones to Arctic seabed, then 4m-long animals with huge tusks appear

We thought eavesdropping on animals didn't annoy them... until these strange-looking creatures started hitting underwater recording devices.Researchers in the Arctic have recorded audio data of …

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Antarctic seabirds have an ingenious way of finding prey in the vast and desolate Southern Ocean flip.it/VlRw4z

Antarctic seabirds have an ingenious way of finding prey in the vast and desolate Southern Ocean

Different species flock together, using team work to sense food in the forbidding seascape, a new study finds.Some seabirds have a great sense of smell. 'Tubenoses’ such as petrels, shearwaters, …

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En 1245, l'Empire mongol s'étendait de la Pologne à la Corée flip.it/zpt.Ch

En 1245, l'Empire mongol s'étendait de la Pologne à la Corée

Alors qu'Ögedeï Khan, le fils de Gengis Khan, s'apprêtait à envahir l'Ouest de l'Europe, il mourut dans des circonstances suspectes. Cela mit les conquêtes en pause.En moins de vingt ans, le …

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Ranking The US Cities With The Coldest Winters, According To Data flip.it/69IPTh

Ranking The US Cities With The Coldest Winters, According To Data

When Frostbite Becomes a Personality TraitWinter is one thing. Surviving it in these cities is another. From frozen lakes to biting winds that could humble an Arctic explorer, these places don’t just...

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Global warming vs climate change: what's the difference? flip.it/HTTrwh

Global warming vs climate change: what's the difference?

While global warming and climate change are often used interchangeably, they actually have different meanings. Beki Hooper explainsPeople often use the terms global warming and climate change …

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Explorers drop 6 miles into Japan's deepest abyss, then 29,556 bizarre organisms emerge from the darkness flip.it/NZtizT

Explorers drop 6 miles into Japan's deepest abyss, then 29,556 bizarre organisms emerge from the...

The crewed submersible visited three underwater trenches during the expedition, reaching depths of 9,775 metres.Researchers documented 29,556 individual organisms in video footage taken by crewed …

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Shackleton Knew ‘Endurance’ Was Flawed, a New Study Suggests flip.it/o-hI.E

Did Shackleton Know His Ship Was Doomed? A New Study Suggests So.

Researchers believe Shackleton knew of his ship’s weaknesses in ice. Should that change our understanding of the classic tale of survival?It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human...

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