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1. Antarctic Waters Yield Hundreds of Species (MSNBC News)
   "Carnivorous sponges, blind creepy-crawlies adorned with hairy antennae and ribbed worms are just some of the new characters found to inhabit the dark abysses of the Southern Ocean, an alien abode once thought devoid of such life."

2. Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaking Up (UK.Reuters.com)
   "An Antarctic ice shelf is on the brink of collapse with just a sliver of ice holding it in place, the latest victim of global warming that is altering maps of the frozen continent." 01-09

3. An Organism Survives Antarctica, Maybe Mars (Time.com)
   "Say what you will about the simple, uninteresting lives of microorganisms, they're tough little critters. You try surviving for a million and a half years without heat, food or sunlight and see how you do. A team of National Science Foundation researchers just discovered a species of Antarctic organisms that has accomplished exactly that — and the microbes' unlikely survival can tell us a lot not just about the adaptability of life on Earth, but the prospects for it on Mars." 04-09

4. Antarctica Ice Melting (Time.com)
   "According to a new report in Nature, glaciers are getting thinner all around the perimeter of Greenland, and in western Antarctica as well. It's not so much that they're melting, says lead author Hamish Pritchard, of the British Antarctic Survey; it's that their seaward motion is accelerating. And, says Pritchard, 'that's a much more rapid way of losing ice than through melting alone.' " 2-06

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6. Antarctic Ice Melting Faster than Expected (Time.com)
   "We already know that Arctic ice is melting faster than expected, and that sea level rise will likely bust the IPCC predictions. Now, thanks to a new paper published yesterday in Nature Geoscience, we have a better idea of why. Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory examined the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica—one of the frozen continent's largest glaciers—and found that it was melting more than 50% faster than it had been just 15 years ago, when an earlier group of scientists visited it. The glacier is now losing 80 cu. km of ice a year, up from 50 cu. km in 1994." 06-11

7. Animated Pictures of Ice Flow in Antarctica (GreenhouseNeutralFoundation.org)
   Uses colors to show the flow of ice. Pictures were collected and compiled from satellite images. 02-12

8. -First-Ever Discovery of Whale Bones on the Antarctic Seafloor (New.Yahoo.com)
   "For the first time ever, scientists say they have discovered a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica. Resting nearly a mile below the surface, the boneyard is teeming with strange life, including at least nine new species of tiny of deep-sea creatures, according to a new study." 03-13

9. Scientists: Antarctica's Scar Inlet Ice Shelf About to Shatter (DailyKos.com)
   "The Scar Inlet Ice Shelf will likely fall apart by the end of Antarctica’s summer, predicted Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado. This inlet's ice is the largest remnant of the vast Larsen B shelf that is still attached to the Antarctica peninsula. One small fragment, the Seal Nunataks, clings on as well. In the Southern Hemisphere's summer of 2002, about 1,250 square miles of the enormous Larsen B Ice Shelf splintered into hundreds of icebergs." 02-08-16

10. -03-01 Record High Temperatures in Antarctica (Time.com)
    "Antarctica's record high temperature registered at 63.5° F (17.5° C) at the Esperanza research base on the Antarctic Peninsula, according to a data review released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Wednesday." 03-17

11. Antarctica Lakes and Canyons (theConversation.com)
    "There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land beneath Antarctica’s ice sheets. Buried under kilometres of ice is a fascinating realm of canyons, waterways and lakes, which is only now being mapped in detail." 03-17

12. Antarctica (Youtube)
    Provides a data on how much change we are likely to experience from the melting of the ice sheets. 03-2023

13. Antarctica - Travel Information by Location (Excite.Travel.com)
    Provides information by area. 3-02

14. Antarctica (CountryReports.org)
    Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map and a flag. 6-02

15. Antarctica (InfoPlease.com)
    Provides information on the history, culture, and geography. 01-06

16. Antarctica (CIA.gov)
    Provides a history of the country, including history (Introduction), military, transportation, geography, people, economy, communications, transnational issues, and a map. 2-06

17. Earth Climate History Through Ice Caps (PBS.org)
    Provides graphs and explanations of climate changes, as well as greenhouse gases, radioactivity, and other measures. Shows that climate over the past ten thousand years has been very stable compared to the time before. Uses ice cores from Antarctica to determine past climate. 3-01

18. New Underwater Volcano Found (Bloomberg.com)
    "A previously unknown underwater volcano has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica, the National Science Foundation said Thursday." 5-04

19. Southern Ocean (Wikipedia.org)
    "The Southern Ocean is the body of water encircling the continent of Antarctica. It is the world's fourth-largest body of water, and the latest to be defined as an Ocean, having been accepted by a decision of the International Hydrographic Organization in 2000, though the term has long been traditional among mariners. Prior to that, the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans were considered to extend to Antarctica." 10-04

20. -07-17-05 Ice Shelf Collapse Reveals Extreme Life Forms (MSNBC News)
    "The collapse of a giant ice shelf in Antarctica has revealed a thriving ecosystem half a mile below the sea."
    
    "Despite near freezing and sunless conditions, a community of clams and a thin layer of bacterial mats are flourishing in undersea sediments."
    
    "Since light could not penetrate the ice or water, these organisms do not use photosynthesis to make energy. Instead, these extreme creatures get their energy from methane, Domack said today." 7-05