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This giant glacier in Antarctica is melting, and it could raise sea levels by 5 feet, scientists say
In the last 22 years, one giant glacier in Antarctica has retreated almost three miles. If it fully thaws, sea levels would rise almost 5 feet.
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This 'Blood-Red' Snow Is Taking Over Parts of Antarctica
After a month of record-breaking temperatures, a kind of snow algae that turns ruby-hued in warm temperatures thrives.
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Heat wave melts 20% of snow cover from Antarctic island in days
It's the third major melt event of the 2019-2020 Southern Hemisphere summer, NASA says.
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See how the Antarctica heat wave turned ice and snow into puddles at a shocking rate
"I haven't seen melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica," one scientist said.
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Antarctic temperature rises above 20C for first time on record
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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Good Morning. It's 65 Degrees in Antarctica.
That's warmer than Orlando today.
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Patterns of thinning of Antarctica's biggest glacier are opposite to previously observed
Using the latest satellite technology from the European Space Agency (ESA), scientists from the University of Bristol have been tracking patterns of mass loss from Pine Island—Antarctica's largest glacier.
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This Robot’s Journey to an Icy Alien Moon Starts Beneath Antarctica
NASA scientists completed field tests in November of a floating rover they hope will one day travel to Europa, the frozen ocean moon of Jupiter.
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100-Year-Old Negatives Discovered in Block of Ice in Antarctica
For the past 100 years, a box of never-before-seen negatives has been preserved in a block of ice in Antarctica. Recently, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust came across the 22 exposed, but unprocessed, cellulose nitrate negatives during an attempt to restore an old exploration hut.
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Antarctic tests will prepare this rover for a possible trip to an icy ocean moon
Exploring a distant moon usually means trundling around its uniquely inhospitable surface, but on icy ocean moons like Saturn's Enceladus, it might be better to come at things from the bottom up.
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Radioactive chlorine from nuclear bomb tests still present in Antarctica
Antarctica's ice sheets are still releasing radioactive chlorine from marine nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s, a new study finds. This suggests regions in Antarctica store and vent the radioactive element differently than previously thought. The results also improve scientists' ability to use chlorine to learn more about Earth's atmosphere.
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100 Years Later, Antarctic Explorers' Huts Look Frozen in Time
Whiskey and all, the wooden dwellings of early explorers have been restored to look as they did during the first treks to the continent in the early 1900s.
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Hidden upside-down 'rivers' eroding Antarctic ice shelves
‘Warm water circulation is attacking undersides of ice shelves at their most vulnerable points’
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315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica produces its largest iceberg in more than 50 years.
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Thousands of meltwater lakes mapped on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet
The number of meltwater lakes on the surface of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet is more significant than previously thought, according to new research. A study led by Durham University, working with researchers from Lancaster University, discovered more than 65,000 supraglacial lakes using high-resolution satellite imagery covering five million square kilometres of the ice sheet, including areas where surface melting was previously thought to be less intense.
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Running the numbers on an insane scheme to save Antarctic ice
It would take a lot. Like a real lot.
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Earth's eighth persistent lava lake found on remote sub-Antarctic island
Many of us will know what bubbling lakes of lava within volcanoes look like. After all, we've seen them our entire lives in movies and on TV. But that doesn't mean they're common. In fact, only seven lava lakes have been found so far, until now.
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Antarctica has lost more ice in four years than the Arctic has in 34 years
Until 2014, Antarctic sea ice levels were actually increasing- but since then according to satellite data, there's been a 'precipitous' nosedive in ice levels. Scientists are now trying to find out why, and what it might mean.
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'Jet in a box' powers Antarctic base
Engineers succeed in automating science experiments at the UK's Halley research station.
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Giant Reptile Found By Argentine Paleontologists In Antarctica
Share A team of Argentine paleontologists unearthed a giant reptile in Antarctica. Looking like the famous Loch Ness monster, this huge Elasmosaurid found in Antarctica is the largest one of its species ever found so far. The Argentine Antarctic Institute conducted the research, and the paleontologist José O’Gorman of the Museum of La Plata...
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