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Antarctic Greening

The white continent is looking distinctly green around the gills. Or at least around the edges, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. It’s easy to think of Antarctica as a polar desert, devoid of plant life and uninteresting to the botanist. That’s true for its vast plateau of ice (snow algae aside),

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Inktober 2023

Autumn is in the air – a thin crust of frazil ice is reforming in the Arctic waters where I work in summer, and October is just around the corner. Last Autumn I took on Inktober for the first time. Having watched from the sidelines for a couple of years, I finally plucked up the

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