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Tag: antarctica
So one of Antarctica’s regions has lost thousands of billions of tons of ice
Researchers studied the mass balance of the region from 1996 to 2021.
That lovely Christmas snow? It probably has microplastics in it
Microplastics are not just transported by water. They can me moved by the air, ending in the snow.
We may have missed an important part about sea level rise
Big tracts of Antarctica’s ice sheets could become a new source of sea level rise.
Scientists discover hidden water reserve under Antarctic ice
A major water reservoir gets discovered.
Tourists are accelerating snowmelt in Antarctica
Even the most unhospitable place on Earth is attracting thousands of visitors yearly.
The stories of Antarctic stations: from science to babies, crime, and beer culture
There's more to Antarctica than ice and penguins. *This article has been edited, see bottom*
Ice shelf protecting Antarctic glacier is on the verge of collapse
Pine Island connects the center of the western Antarctic ice sheet with the ocean.
Scientists find life under half-mile of ice in Antarctica
Nothing should have been alive -- yet life found a way.
How many people live in Antarctica — and other things you wish you knew about the frozen continent
Antarctica's a weird place. It has a Burger King, a few coffee shops, but no real inhabitants.
Giant iceberg A-68a scrapes seafloor and breaks into two. Its current trajectory is unknown
It's currently drifting towards Georgia, US.
Scientists report unusual seismic activity in Antarctica: over 30,000 tremors
The earthquakes range from 0.9 to 5.6 magnitude and took place from August to November.
The Arctic sea ice keeps declining as the world gets warmer, setting a record low for October
This year is on track to be among the hottest years ever.
Melting caused by global warming creates more melt and it’s a dangerous vicious cycle
Less ice means more melt which means less ice.
This is the best place in the world to see the cosmos at night — if you can bear it
Better get your cold weather gear if you are planning to go there
Bad news for Antarctica, as climate change continues to kick in
The heating climate is delivering a one-two punch to Antarctic ice.
Human activity is expanding in Antarctica and threatens its biodiversity
Most of the continent is still considered wilderness but only has a few biodiversity features
What’s the largest desert in the world? (Hint: It’s not the Sahara, according to experts)
They cover more than one-fifth of the planet and are on every continent
Antarctica is warming three times faster than the rest of the world
Reseach shows that the South Pole is warming at an alarmingly faster rate than the rest of the world.
The world’s cleanest air is in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica
It's truly pristine and unaffected by pollution from human activities.
The climate crisis is turning parts of Antarctica green
Researchers mapped the microscopic algae on the Antarctic peninsula.
Scientists find evidence of ancient tropical rainforest in Antarctica
Illustration of the Antarctic rainforest. Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/James McKay. The icy continent of Antarctica wasn't always the barren landscape that we ...
Research station in East Antarctica reports its first heatwave
It was recorded during the 2019-2020 Arctic summer.
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than in the 1990s
This rate is in line with the worst-case scenario set by UN climate experts.
Is the snow turning red in Antarctica? Well, not exactly
Yes, but also no.
Antarctica is melting. NASA photos show consequence of record temperatures
Antarctica is losing its characteristic white color, and climate change has a lot to do with it.
Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is spawning huge ‘piglet’ icebergs
The climate crisis is showing its effects in Antarctica.
Scientists drill on an Antarctic glacier to see if it will collapse
The Thwaites Glacier is 74.000 square miles and is vulnerable to climate change
Shifts in melting patterns pose new problems for Pine Island glacier
Antarctica's largest glacier is melting in new ways.
World’s deepest point on land found hidden in Antarctica
A trough beneath Denman Glacier is the deepest continent point in the world, measuring more than 2 miles beneath sea ...
Antarctica is being melted from the inside-out by hidden rivers
They run below the Antarctic shelves and destabilize and melt them
The atmosphere above Antarctica has gotten so hot it broke all previous records
The sudden stratospheric warming will cause Australia to experience less rainfall and higher temperatures.
Scientists find stardust in Antartic snow
The material "must have come from a supernova."
Melting Antarctic ice can ‘significantly’ delay climate heating in Southern Hemisphere
The trade-off, of course, is an 80 cm-higher global sea level.
Research uncovered new, surprising melting patterns beneath the Ice Ross Shelf
Sometimes, you just have to look at individual trees to understand the forest.
Nearly one quarter of West Antarctica ice is unstable, melting, study reports
That's a LOT of ice.
Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of emerald icebergs
Iron oxide may be coloring some icebergs green, which would make them important nutrient carriers for marine life.
Antarctica is losing six times more ice than 40 years ago
There's enough ice in Antarctica to raise sea levels by 60 meters -- and it's now on a slippery slope.
Antarctic ice shelf makes ghostly sounds as winds whip across its surface
It's like the soundscape for a bad horror movie.
New map of Antarctica is the most detailed out of all continents
"It’s a bit like being almost blind and putting on glasses for the first time and seeing 20/20," a researcher ...
The coldest temperature on Earth has been updated — and it’s ungodly low
Scientists say it can't colder than this new record of minus 98 degrees Celsius.
New study shows that Antarctica is seismically active — we just haven’t listened close enough
If you want to understand something, you need to study it closely.
A hundred years later, Captain Scott’s Discovery expedition can offer important climate change insights
Century-old samples might teach us something new about climate change.
Scientists harvest first batch of Antarctic vegetables
Growing foods, at ungodly temperatures, without any soil or sunlight -- strike one for science!
Huge Antarctic iceberg exposes mysterious marine ecosystem hidden beneath the ice for 120,000 years
One of the biggest icebergs in the world has now exposed a potentially alien-like ecosystem.
Drones to offer faster, cheaper monitoring of Antarctica’s ecosystems
Their job will be to take pictures of fat seals and I'm so, so envious.
Antarctica once had a forest and researchers are trying to figure out why it disappeared
Antarctica hasn't always been the icy wasteland it is today.
Ozone hole at its slimmest after 30 years of international effort, keeps shrinking
The warmer temperatures seen in latter years helped keep its size in check.
Unless coal is phased out by 2050, Antarctica’s melting ice sheet could drive a massive surge in sea level rise
Some countries are already planning to phase out coal by 2030 but it's not enough.
Gaping hole larger than the Netherlands opens up in icy sea off Antarctica
Scientists caution that it's too early to involve climate change in this instance.
