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Study shows subtle changes in speech accents among Antarctica's few temporary inhabitants.
Torpedo-shaped Icefin robot can go to insane depths beneath ice and help us understand what's making the doomsday glacier melt so fast.
Researchers studied the mass balance of the region from 1996 to 2021.
Microplastics are not just transported by water. They can me moved by the air, ending in the snow.
Big tracts of Antarctica’s ice sheets could become a new source of sea level rise.
A major water reservoir gets discovered.
Even the most unhospitable place on Earth is attracting thousands of visitors yearly.
There's more to Antarctica than ice and penguins. *This article has been edited, see bottom*
Pine Island connects the center of the western Antarctic ice sheet with the ocean.
Nothing should have been alive -- yet life found a way.
Antarctica's a weird place. It has a Burger King, a few coffee shops, but no real inhabitants.
It's currently drifting towards Georgia, US.
The earthquakes range from 0.9 to 5.6 magnitude and took place from August to November.
This year is on track to be among the hottest years ever.
Less ice means more melt which means less ice.
Better get your cold weather gear if you are planning to go there
The heating climate is delivering a one-two punch to Antarctic ice.
Most of the continent is still considered wilderness but only has a few biodiversity features
They cover more than one-fifth of the planet and are on every continent
Reseach shows that the South Pole is warming at an alarmingly faster rate than the rest of the world.
It's truly pristine and unaffected by pollution from human activities.
Researchers mapped the microscopic algae on the Antarctic peninsula.
The icy continent of Antarctica wasn’t always the barren landscape that we all know today. As early as 90 million years ago, the continent may have been covered in a temperate rainforest, similar to what you’d find in today’s New Zealand, instead of an ice cap. The study was carried out by an international team […]
It was recorded during the 2019-2020 Arctic summer.
This rate is in line with the worst-case scenario set by UN climate experts.
Yes, but also no.
Antarctica is losing its characteristic white color, and climate change has a lot to do with it.
The climate crisis is showing its effects in Antarctica.
The Thwaites Glacier is 74.000 square miles and is vulnerable to climate change
Antarctica's largest glacier is melting in new ways.
A trough beneath Denman Glacier is the deepest continent point in the world, measuring more than 2 miles beneath sea level.
They run below the Antarctic shelves and destabilize and melt them
The sudden stratospheric warming will cause Australia to experience less rainfall and higher temperatures.
The material "must have come from a supernova."
The trade-off, of course, is an 80 cm-higher global sea level.
Sometimes, you just have to look at individual trees to understand the forest.
That's a LOT of ice.
Iron oxide may be coloring some icebergs green, which would make them important nutrient carriers for marine life.
There's enough ice in Antarctica to raise sea levels by 60 meters -- and it's now on a slippery slope.
It's like the soundscape for a bad horror movie.
"It’s a bit like being almost blind and putting on glasses for the first time and seeing 20/20," a researcher said.
Scientists say it can't colder than this new record of minus 98 degrees Celsius.
If you want to understand something, you need to study it closely.
Century-old samples might teach us something new about climate change.
Growing foods, at ungodly temperatures, without any soil or sunlight -- strike one for science!
One of the biggest icebergs in the world has now exposed a potentially alien-like ecosystem.
Their job will be to take pictures of fat seals and I'm so, so envious.
Antarctica hasn't always been the icy wasteland it is today.
The warmer temperatures seen in latter years helped keep its size in check.
Some countries are already planning to phase out coal by 2030 but it's not enough.
