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- Living creatures found 1,600 feet beneath Antarctica Fri, 10 Jun 22, 5:30amScientists have found a swarm of crab-like creatures 1,600 feet below the ice in Antarctica in what is termed a freshwater river. The scientists were on a mission to study the river in the Ross Ice Shelf to see how it has...
- Newly Discovered Lake May Hold Secret to Antarctic Ice Sheet’s Rise and Fall Wed, 11 May 22, 3:00am“This lake is likely to have a record of the entire history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, its initiation over 34 million years ago, as well as its growth and evolution across glacial cycles since then
- Antarctic sea ice melt phenomenon explained in new research Thu, 7 Apr 22, 4:30amNew research has examined the reason behind the rapid retreat of Antarctic sea ice. University of Washington researchers established that the puzzling phenomenon can be explained by simple physics.[...]
- Tory MPs call the green transition ‘unaffordable’. Europe is proving that’s a lie | George Monbiot Wed, 23 Mar 22, 9:00pmThe latest wave of climate deniers claim green schemes are ‘unaffordable’. Success stories from around Europe prove that’s not true
- Ancient Ice Reveals Scores of Gigantic Volcanic Eruptions Thu, 17 Mar 22, 12:00pmIce cores drilled in Antarctica and Greenland have revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history. According to the University of Copenhagen...
- Black carbon pollution from tourism and research increasing Antarctic snowmelt, study says Wed, 23 Feb 22, 3:00amPollution generated by burning fossil fuels causes snow to darken, absorb more solar energy and melt faster
- South Pole’s Winter Weather Record Sat, 23 Oct 21, 12:00amThe Antarctic interior recorded its coldest April-to-September this year since records began in 1957. According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC), the average temperature at the US Amundsen-Scott South Pole...
- The Antarctic Refrigerator Effect Sun, 10 Oct 21, 8:00pmDue to the formation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, enabled by plate tectonics, Antarctica became thermally isolated from the rest of the earth initiating 1) a permanent ice cap, 2) extensive sea ice that extruded...
- South Pole has coldest winter ever, but it’s just “a blip” Tue, 5 Oct 21, 5:46amThe sun has just risen on South Pole after the coldest six month period on record since 1956. The last winter there was suddenly 2.2 degrees Celsius colder than the average for the last 30 years.
- New Study Finds East And West Antarctica Have Profoundly Cooled By -2.8°C And -1.68°C Since 1979 Wed, 28 Jul 21, 7:00amFrom 1979-2018 East Antarctica cooled -0.70°C/decade (-2.8°C), West Antarctica cooled -0.42°C/decade (-1.68°C), but the Antarctic Peninsula warmed 0.18°C/decade (0.72°C). Thus, as a whole, the Antarctic continent has...
- Climate change makes Antarctic summers… cooler Wed, 14 Jul 21, 4:12amForty years of global warming have made East Antarctic summers even shorter and more miserably colder than they already were. (Save the wilderness — burn coal now?)
- Minus 81 Celsius last week in Antarctica Wed, 23 Jun 21, 4:39amIt was ten degrees below normal at Scott Base, in June, and usually July is the coldest month.
- Critical Antarctic ice shelf breaking away at an alarming rate Thu, 17 Jun 21, 2:30amA new study published in Science Advances has revealed that the Pine Island Glacier's ice shelf is breaking away at a rate much faster than previously measured...
- Claim: Antarctica is headed for a climate tipping point by 2060, with catastrophic melting if carbon emissions aren’t cut quickly Sat, 22 May 21, 3:00amSome other researchers suggest that ice cliffs in Antarctica might not collapse as quickly as those in Greenland. But given their size and current rates of warming – far faster than in the historic record – what if they...
- As glaciers disappear in Alaska, the rest of the world’s ice follows Sat, 1 May 21, 7:30pmMountain glacier melt contributes more than a quarter of extra volume to the world’s oceans, disrupting ancient cycles of creation