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Researchers have an explanation for unprecedented heat wave in Antarctica

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Der Klimatologe Jonathan Wille von der ETH Zürich Credit: Jonathan Wille

2023 was the hottest year on record worldwide. But even before this record, one of the coldest places in the world was “sweating”: Antarctica experienced an extraordinary heat wave in March 2022 that shocked climate researchers. A global research project has the answers.



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