Meet the scientists making new climate discoveries (and fudge) at the South Pole

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By Lyra PierottiApr 22, 2015, 5:29 pm300 pts
At the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a remote Antarctic outpost centered over the one spot on Earth where every direction you point is north, food is a Really Big Deal. The U.S. research station stands on large cylindrical stilts over roughly two miles of ice and snow — so high that water boils…

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