antarctica, Tag

Quick — tax the magma It’s another round of Antarctic Doom about next to nothing. In April Antarctica’s ice was melting five times faster than usual. Now it’s losing ice three times faster in the last...

Researchers have discovered three large canyons frozen beneath the ice of Antarctica, each of which is hundreds of kilometers in length. The canyons, which move through tall mountains that lie beneath the snowy surface of...

Three days ago, Anthony posted a very factual summary of the recent EGU paper on the increase in Antarctic snowfall over the past 200 years: Big increase in Antarctic Snowfall helps to prevent sea level rise Earther, the...

Fresh, local produce may be a rarity in Antarctica, but one indoor farm near a research station there just welcomed their first harvest. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) said the experimental greenhouse EDEN-ISS, at Alfred...

Fresh, local produce might have seemed like an impossibility in Antarctica — until now. The experimental greenhouse EDEN-ISS at Alfred Wegener Institute's Neumayer-Station III recently harvested their first crops: 18 cucumbers,...

Let this go down as a prime example of Big Meaningless Numbers used to scare you:

Adélie penguin populations have been declining in Antarctica — at least, that's what scientists thought. An international team recently discovered a mega-colony of over 1.5 million penguins on the Danger Islands, according...

Adélie penguin populations have been declining in Antarctica — at least, that's what scientists thought. An international team recently discovered a supercolony of over 1.5 million penguins on the Danger Islands, according...

Scientists are seeking to explore an underwater area previously covered by an Antarctic ice shelf for 120,000 years. Climate change is affecting every corner of the globe and while its challenges are well known, the dramatic...

While the US is busy trying to open more precious areas to fishing and drilling, a campaign led by the EU and Greenpeace seeks to protect an area the size of Germany in Antarctica...

Scientists have discovered a strange new bacteria in the Antarctic that can survive the planet's most extreme conditions just by breathing air. The discovery could help us find alien life in space.[...]

Two of Antarctica's glaciers are holding our civilization hostage, meteorologist Eric Holthaus wrote in a piece for Grist. Pine Island and Thwaites are among the continent's biggest and fastest-melting glaciers, together...

It may be hard to believe, but forests once sprawled across Antarctica. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) geologists recently climbed the slopes of McIntyre Promontory in the Transantarctic Mountains to uncover fossil...

A new study suggests temperatures across Antarctica have been falling for the last 1,600 years.  This natural climate change would have been a threat to baby penguins, forcing them to walk much further across sea-ice for...

A giant hole the size of Maine or Lake Superior has suddenly appeared on the surface of Antarctica and scientists are not quite sure how it came into being. "It looks like you just punched a hole in the ice," said atmospheric...