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  DJ Spooky's 'Sinfonia Antarctica' Pushes the Boundaries of Cool

  By David Bois | Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:04 PM ET

  project that incorporates the sounds he collected of Antarctic ice breaking apart.As we learn by way of New Scientist, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica is a 70-minute music and video composition set to premiere early in December at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.Miller travelled t Read More

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  An Antarctic Expedition — For Scotch

  By Kathy Ehrich Dowd | Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:04 PM ET

  New Zealand explorers set out to unearth bottles of Scotch frozen in Antarctic ice for a century. Read More

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  What Lies Beneath

  By Lisa Jo Rudy | Thu Sep 17, 2009 3:59 PM ET

  real-life researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago are headed south to investigate for themselves. Their journey will take them to Antarctica's Lake Vida, which is described in NewsWise as a "geologic curiosity that is essentially an ice bottle of brine ... home to some of th Read More

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  A First: Ice Caps Linked to Carbon Dioxide

  By David Bois | Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:25 PM ET

  the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Our study is the first to provide a direct link between the establishment of an ice sheet on Antarctica and atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and therefore confirms the relationship between carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and globa Read More

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• Not Your Average Trip to the Lake

  By David Bois | Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:07 AM ET

  approach is required to avoid contaminating one of the planet's most remote and truly pristine settings. Beneath a two mile thick layer of ice sits Antarctica's Lake Vostok. Discovered in the 1970s and since delineated with ground penetrating radar to approximate the size of Lake Ontario, th Read More

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  Footrace: More Than Just a Walk in the Park

  By Brittney McKenna | Fri May 15, 2009 2:29 PM ET

  consists of three 150-mile treks through Chile, China, and the Sahara, with those who make it through the first three ending with a walk across Antarctica. No big thing, right? The upcoming race through Namibia is a little different than the “4 Deserts” races, in that it is a greate Read More

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