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Ice cores and climate change
By extracting ice cores from Antarctica, scientists are able to travel more than 800,000 years back into Earth’s climate history
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott was the first British explorer to reach the South Pole and explore Antarctica extensively by land in the early 1900s.
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Kristian Gerhard Jebsen Gallery: Polar Worlds
Science, exploration and life in extreme environments - visit the Polar Worlds gallery at the National Maritime Museum
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Why satellites are critical to fighting climate change
The polar ice sheets are melting six times faster than the 1990s. But thanks to earth observation satellites, we can at least measure the effect that climate change is having
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Stories from the Sea: Exploration resource
Welcome to the exciting world of exploration, full of adventure, danger and strange discoveries - and plenty of fodder for great story-writing.