Three kilometers above sea level at the bottom of the world is a near-unbearably cold desert. The icy landscape is featureless and flat; useful in the height of summer when the mercury climbs to -30 ...

They went looking for a shipwreck in Antarctica’s western Weddell Sea but found something else instead. Researchers on the hunt in 2019 for the wreckage of the HMS Endurance, which became trapped and ...

A robot found over 1,000 organized fish nests under Antarctic ice, revealing geometric breeding patterns and new clues about marine life.

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Researchers have found 6 million-year-old ice in the Allan Hills region of Antarctica and say the oldest-of-its-kind sample ...

Even as some parts of West Antarctica rapidly melt, raising sea level, large swaths of the ice remain stable for the time being. Scientists have now explored one of those stable spots — an isolated ...

A study presents new evidence that microplastics are present in snow in Antarctica, one of the remotest places on Earth. Researchers collected snow samples at 19 sites across the Ross Ice Shelf in ...

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