Tag: antarctica

Scientists caution that it's too early to involve climate change in this instance.

Not good. No, not good at all!

You could wear a T-shirt in these caves under the Antarctic.

No one touched it for more than a century, not even the penguins.

Exciting but scary news at the same time.

When we said 'Go green,' this really wasn't what we had in mind.

As is often the case, more questions arose after the mystery was solved.

This could have been going for decades but scientists are worried nevertheless.

Gentoo penguins are prolific poopers, much to the delight of some scientists.

An effect of warming climate, or just a string of coincidences?

Next time you go to Antarctica, pack your shorts.

Simply stunning!

It looks like we're moving closer to a dramatic break-up.

As the Antarctic spring comes to an end and the "summer" enters into force, a team of geoscientists is seeking ...

The ice shelf is far more fragile than we hoped.

A great victory for wildlife.

A long-standing assumption that as the planet warms, the biosphere releases more CO2 in a positive feedback loop was confirmed ...

Antartica's penguins are in trouble.

In the past decade, ice extent at the two poles couldn't be more different. The Arctic has seen its 13 ...

Antarctic researchers are in need of help - specifically, they need people to study photos of penguins to help them ...

A refined model based on equations which accurately reproduced sea level rise events from hundreds of thousands of years ago ...

While the climate talks in Paris are carrying on in full force, it's important to keep in mind that most ...

n 1911, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole, followed by Scott who died on the return journey. Shackleton ...

Changes in surface height as measured by satellite altimeters suggest the Antarctic peninsula is experiencing a net gain of ice ...

Enticed by warming waters, king crabs might soon make a run for Antarctica's continental shelf where they haven't been seen ...

Just a few days ago were telling you about a huge, 10,000 year old ice shelf that is set to ...

China is showing increased interest in Antarctica, developing several outposts and research stations on the frozen continent. But while from ...

If you've ever visited the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, then you've likely had a surprise. The cold, frigid white ...

Octopus species that live in ice-cold Antarctic waters employ an unique strategy to transport oxygen to its tissue and survive, ...

After scientists discovered a huge hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic, an emergency UN panel banned the use ...

Using satellite imagery, scientists have discovered two new subglacial lakes under Greenland's ice sheet bringing the total number to four. ...

Over ninety percent of all the world's ice is in Antarctica, where it can run 4000-5000 meters deep. Yet, as ...

A notebook that laid under the cover of Antarctic ice for the past 100 years was discovered by Newzealand’s Antarctic ...

It's not called colossal for nothing. Photo: Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Smaller, yet heavier then their legendary ...

A mosaic of more than 3,150 high-resolution satellite images creates the best continent-wide view since 1997. The result is the ...

JAMEY STUTZ, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY Chile is one of the most seismically active countries in the world. In 2010, it ...

Various measurements have captured the West Antarctic ice sheet changing very rapidly in the region where it flows into the ...

Oceanographers believe that Antarctica's oceanic waters, which are turning from briny to fresh in recent decades, are causing the shutdown ...

A song of ice and fire Antarctica is split in two different areas: East Antarctica and West Antarctica - and ...

(c) British Antarctic Survey A new study that examined ice core samples found that parts of Antarctica's ice are melting ...

We have a rather sound image in our heads of Antarctica: cold, barren and damn well inhospitable. Million of years ...

Using 21st century nanotechnology, researchers have discovered a new mineral in samples from a meteorite discovered in Antarctica in 1969. ...

Underneath hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice lie a slew of lakes, completely isolated from the outside world, some for ...

Scientists who studied sediment cores drilled from the ocean floor off the Antarctic coast, have found on subsequent analysis fossil ...

Scientists from Britain have found a remote ice rift valley, up to one mile deep, under the ice in Antarctica. The ...

Researchers at the University of Delaware and the Canadian Ice Service recently reported that an ice island, whose surface is ...

Antarctica is home to one of harshest environments in the world, but exactly because of this it exhibit a unique ...

It took 30 years, an enormous amount of effort and patience, and drilling through 3,768 meters of thick ice for ...

According to Chile's Centre for Scientific Studies (CECs) it seems like an array of glaciers located in the country's south ...