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 Glaciers in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Temperatures in the region have warmed rapidly in recent years. Photograph: Johan Ordóñez/AFP via Getty Images
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The Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20C (68F) for the first time on record, prompting fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. The 20.75C logged by Brazilian scientists at Seymour Island on 9 February was almost a full degree higher than the previous record of 19.8C, taken on Signy Island in January 1982.

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