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Ice cores hold secrets of what our planet was like millions of years ago, in bubbles preserving greenhouse gases from that time. A Princeton University-led team just revealed the date of ice from the oldest ice core we've...

It’s possibly the densest concentration of volcanoes in the world, some as high as 4km and we didn’t even know these existed til recently.  Despite that overwhelming ignorance, we’re 97.00% certain that...

There's a new contender for the continent with Earth's biggest volcanic region: Antarctica. Researchers found 91 previously unknown, massive volcanoes, ranging in height from around 328 to 12,631 feet. A University of Edinburgh...

There's a new contender for the continent with Earth's biggest volcanic region: Antarctica. Researchers found 91 previously unknown, massive volcanoes, ranging in height from around 328 to 12,631 feet. A University of Edinburgh...

For eighteen months, scientists and concerned citizens waited for a giant iceberg to break off the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica. On July 12, the highly-anticipated event finally occurred. Because the iceberg, named A68,...

Antarctica may be the last place you'd expect to find sunscreen ingredients, but scientists from Chile have a hunch the molecules that shield two species of Antarctic flowers from the harsh effects of the sun could also protect...

CNN is  “freaking out” about the latest large iceberg. But John Sutter doesn’t mention that there was an iceberg twice its size in the year 2000 which was 11,000km2, and that as long ago as 1967, two other...

A gargantuan iceberg is set to break away from an Antarctic ice shelf within days — or even hours. Initially discovered by UK researchers in 2010, the nascent iceberg has been rapidly calving since 2016. Once the crack...

It finally happened. For several months scientists have had their eyes on the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica, where a massive iceberg has been dangling by a thread. Now they report the iceberg has indeed calved, and is...

A gargantuan iceberg is set to break away from an Antarctic ice shelf within days — or even hours. Initially discovered by UK researchers in 2010, the nascent iceberg has been rapidly calving since 2016. Once the crack...

We know about plastic pollution in the Pacific Ocean, and even in the Arctic Ocean. But scientists thought the Antarctic was relatively free of that particular type of pollution until a recent study from the University of...

A recent snowmelt event in West Antarctica could provide scientists with more information to understand how climate change will alter our world. A team of 14 scientists from American and Australian institutions documented...

A recent snowmelt event in West Antarctica could provide scientists with more information to understand how climate change will alter our world. A team of 14 scientists from American and Australian institutions documented...

Due to global warming and rising temperatures, glaciers are slowly melting - and, in some cases, breaking apart. A massive 8-mile crack is steadily growing along Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf - and when it splits, the resulting...

Due to global warming and rising temperatures, glaciers are slowly melting - and, in some cases, breaking apart. A massive 8-mile crack is steadily growing along Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf - and when it splits, the resulting...