Antarctica

Lake Whillans is a strange body of water, starting with the fact that there is liquid to fill it at all. Though buried under more than 2,000 feet of Antarctic ice, its temperatures climb to…

Photograph: Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust/National GeographicSabertooth’s tether makes it unlike other Antarctic ocean robots, which tend to be fully autonomous; scientists give them…

Almost 9,500 miles from Kyiv, the Ukrainian flag flutters above a handful of squat, scattered buildings perched on a half-mile-long island at the very edge of Antarctica. This is Vernadsky…

Antarctica’s glaciers are under threat, but not in the way you’re thinking: The problem isn’t so much that the sun’s beating down on them, but that the warming sea is upper-cutting them. The…

The hunt for meteorites may have just gotten some new leads. A powerful new machine learning algorithm has identified over 600 hot spots in Antarctica where scientists are likely to…

Right now, the Antarctic and the waters around it are surprisingly free of invasive species. According to new research, however, that situation might change in the not-too-distant future,…

But the news from Icefin doesn't bode well. Waters warm enough to melt glaciers are swirling around Thwaites’ grounding line—the exact point where ice meets land—and this line has retreated…

Dr Brendon Miller, Kate Stoddart, Jack Scott, Indy Platt-Byrnes, Ben Trigg and Sophia White at the International…

Berlin, September 16 Scientists say the hole in the Earth’s protective ozone layer over the Southern Hemisphere is larger than usual this…

The ConversationJul 13, 2021 13:55:24 ISTTens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a thriving marine ecosystem on the…