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Topic: Antarctica

Measurements taken by NOAA scientists show carbon dioxide levels are now permanently above 400 parts per million — even at the South Pole, which is the last place on Earth to register the impacts of increasing emissions from fossil fuel consumption. This photo shows NOAA's South Pole Observatory in the distance.

Photo story: Flying north for the winter

March 1, 2024

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Measurements taken by NOAA scientists show carbon dioxide levels are now permanently above 400 parts per million — even at the South Pole, which is the last place on Earth to register the impacts of increasing emissions from fossil fuel consumption. This photo shows NOAA's South Pole Observatory in the distance.

The tiny Antarctic field camp at Cape Shirreff on a sunny day and bluish skies with tall, snowy Antarctic mountains in the background.

Sheltering science at the end of the Earth, part 3: Life outside of work

December 27, 2023

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The tiny Antarctic field camp at Cape Shirreff on a sunny day and bluish skies with tall, snowy Antarctic mountains in the background.

Two men working outside the original Seal Island field camp (red buildings in the distance) at Cape Shirreff, Antarctica. Off to the left are hundreds of penguins looking on.

Sheltering science at the end of the Earth, part 2: Tiny, but mighty

December 27, 2023

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Two men working outside the original Seal Island field camp (red buildings in the distance) at Cape Shirreff, Antarctica. Off to the left are hundreds of penguins looking on.

A black and white image of a tiny Antarctic field camp settled among huge, snow-covered mountains of Cape Shirreff.

Sheltering science at the end of the Earth: Part 1 of our three-part series

December 27, 2023

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A black and white image of a tiny Antarctic field camp settled among huge, snow-covered mountains of Cape Shirreff.

Ozone hole and ozone concentration over Antarctica on October 7, 2021.

Path to ozone layer recovery reaches milestone

August 23, 2022

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Ozone hole and ozone concentration over Antarctica on October 7, 2021.

A NOAA ozonesonde -- an instrument used to help scientists monitor the Antarctic ozone hole -- ascends over the South Pole in this time-lapse photo taken October 21, 2020. Ideal weather conditions helped create a large, persistent ozone hole that will last into November 2020.

Large, deep Antarctic ozone hole to persist into November

October 30, 2020

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A NOAA ozonesonde -- an instrument used to help scientists monitor the Antarctic ozone hole -- ascends over the South Pole in this time-lapse photo taken October 21, 2020. Ideal weather conditions helped create a large, persistent ozone hole that will last into November 2020.

Sept. 9, 2019: A time-lapse image of NOAA staff at the South Pole launching a weather balloon fitted with an ozonesonde that measures vertical concentrations of ozone inside the ozone hole.

The 2019 ozone hole is the smallest ever recorded

October 21, 2019

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Sept. 9, 2019: A time-lapse image of NOAA staff at the South Pole launching a weather balloon fitted with an ozonesonde that measures vertical concentrations of ozone inside the ozone hole.

Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days.

Saildrone is first to circumnavigate Antarctica, in search for carbon dioxide

August 5, 2019

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Saildrone 1020 approaches Point Bluff, New Zealand, in stormy conditions after completing the first unmanned circumnavigation of Antarctica in early August 2019. It sailed more than 13,000 miles around the Southern Ocean in 196 days.

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star leads the way cutting a channel, so that the container and supply ships can make it through the ice.

Breaking through the ice to resupply Antarctica's McMurdo Station

July 12, 2019

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The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star leads the way cutting a channel, so that the container and supply ships can make it through the ice.

Young, thin ice floats in the Amundsen Sea on October 16, 2009.

Antarctic sea ice shows little trend, lots of variability

May 28, 2019

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Young, thin ice floats in the Amundsen Sea on October 16, 2009.

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