Shifts in melting patterns pose new problems for Pine Island glacier
Antarctica's largest glacier is melting in new ways.
Tag: antarctica
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.
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.