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Unlike its counterpart, West Antarctica, which has long been decimated by melting ice caps, East Antarctica used to be a safe zone - something scientists could depend on as a constant while they solved the more pressing destruction...

Recent satellite images and a new study show that only 200,000 of the two million king penguins who lived on the French island of Île aux Cochons in 1982 still remain...

An unlikely alliance has formed between krill fishing companies and environmental protection groups over a common cause: protecting the Antarctic Ocean and its marine life...

It seems that most news concerning Antarctica's ice sheets is bad news, with two of the world's fastest melting glaciers shrinking away in the continent's western region...

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.[...]