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11 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Traveling to Antarctica
A journey to Antarctica is the journey of a lifetime. And the things you’ll see and experience—the sight of penguins marching along their snowy highways, the sound of a humpback whale surfacing to ...
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TikToks are increasing the popularity of tourism in Antarctica - and the risks
Researchers say social media is contributing to the growing popularity of tourism in Antarctica, where annual visitor numbers surged to 124,000 over the past year. But there is concern that the ...
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TikToks are increasing the popularity of tourism in Antarctica — and the risks
Researchers say social media is contributing to the growing popularity of tourism in Antarctica, where annual visitor numbers surged to 124,000 over the past year. But there is concern that the ...
The New York Times24d
A Frigid First: Chile’s President Visits South Pole to Bolster Antarctic Claims
Gabriel Boric’s trip to the pole, which his office called the first by a Latin American president, comes amid rising competition for influence in Antarctica. By Eve Sampson Chile’s president ...
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Chile’s President Boric leads journey to South Pole in historic trip
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric travelled to Antarctica’s South Pole on Friday, a place where no other Latin American president has set foot, according to the Chilean government. Boric led the ...
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Black snow, emissions and bird flu: How Antarctic cruises hurt more than they help
Antarctic tourism has boomed in recent years with the remote continent attracting record numbers of tourists. In 2024, an astonishing 122,000 people made the trip to Antarctica - a massive ...
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Antarctic Ice Melt May Fuel Eruptions of Hidden Volcanoes
A slow climate feedback loop may be bubbling beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet. The continent, divided east to west by the Transantarctic Mountains, includes volcanic giants such as Mount ...
The Debrief27d
Deep Beneath Antarctica’s Frozen Lake Enigma, Something Has Been Hiding Under 14 Meters of Ice—Until Now
Scientists report the discovery of a thriving ecosystem of living organisms in one of Earth’s most extreme environments: beneath 14 meters of ice covering Antarctica’s frozen Lake Enigma. A ...
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Phase Control in Monometallic and Alloy Nanomaterials
Division of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan The HAKUBI Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University, ...
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KoBold used AI to find copper — now investors are piling in to the tune of $537M
KoBold Metals closed a $537 million Series C round on Wednesday to help build a multi-billion-dollar mine to exploit a copper deposit it found using AI. The new funding round, which was led by ...
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Hudbay receives all permits for Copper World project in Arizona
Hudbay Minerals’ (TSX, NYSE: HBM) proposed 85,000-tonne-per-year Copper World project in Arizona is now fully permitted for development after receiving all three key state-level permits.