PARIS — Antarctica, the world's coldest continent, is experiencing an exceptionally long heat wave during its winter, the United Kingdom's national polar research institute said.
Temperature anomalies are not unusual on the continent known as "The Ice," but "the longevity of the warm period is unusual," Thomas Caton Harrison, Polar Climate Scientist at British Antarctic Survey, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) this week.
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