Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
Scientists Uncover a Frozen History in 6,000 Years’ Worth of Penguin Poop, Revealing Past Ecology on Antarctica
Sediment samples from the Ross Sea coastline are revealing insights into how animals like elephant seals and Adélie penguins ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN1d
New Map Reveals a Hidden Landscape Beneath Antarctica’s Ice—And It’s More at Risk Than Ever
A groundbreaking new map,Bedmap3, has provided the most detailed view yet of the hidden landscape beneath Antarctica’s ice ...
ZME Science on MSN23h
This Is What Antarctica Would Look Like Without Its Ice
There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...
The Golden Age of Antarctic Science May Be Ending
The Trump administration is sabotaging the country’s gold-standard climate science in Antarctica and around the world.
MercoPress2y
Researchers concerned over ice shelf disintegrating in East Antarctica
The Conger Shelf, a 460-square-kilometers mass of ice has disintegrated in East Antarctica, it was reported over the weekend. It was the first to break up in four decades of satellite observations.
New map of landscape beneath Antarctica unveiled
The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...
Marine Technology News1d
Denman Glacier Has Already Lost Over 250 Billion Tons of Ice
The Denman Glacier is one of the largest and fastest-melting glaciers in East Antarctica and alone holds a potential sea level ...
THE WEEK1y
How Antarctica has become the enduring climate change bellwether
There's conclusive evidence that the temperature in Antarctica is rising, according to the study. The most extreme heat wave ever seen globally, the study stated, "occurred over East Antarctica in ...
MercoPress1mon
Antarctica historic milestone, successful drilling of a 2.800 meters long ice core, more than 1.2 million years old
It is hoped that advanced analysis of this segment could help test previous theories about the behaviour of refrozen ice under the Antarctic ice sheet and reveal East Antarctica’s glaciation ...
National Geographic news1y
What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted
East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem unmeltable. It survived earlier warm periods intact. Lately it ...
World’s Largest Iceberg Runs Aground
A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America.