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Ben Turner

'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?

Deception Island, Antarctica.

Look out over Antarctica in the summer, and time seems frozen. The South Pole's midnight sun appears to hover in place, never dropping below the horizon for weeks between November and January.

But the Antarctic’s timelessness is an illusion. Only a decade ago, on summer nights across the coast, the sun would glide ever so slightly over the ocean, dusting its ice floes in golden light.

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