Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged

New study shows that warming deep ocean currents also contribute to the rapid melting of Antarctic ice shelves, contrary conventional wisdom that only wind circulation affects the melting

Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' discovered in Antarctic depths (2022)

Ocean currents threaten to collapse Antarctic ice shelves, study finds

Scientists investigate dead Antarctic penguins for bird flu

Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting

Gas Trapped in Antarctic Ice Recorded the Mass Death of 56M People

Researchers in Antarctica may solve one of the greatest enigmas in physics: the existence of quantum gravity

After Outer Space, 93-Year-Old William Shatner Leads Cruise to Antarctica

Antarctic Circumpolar Current's history closely tied to temperature

Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to Hide Dangerous Stunts

Antarctic English

Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Vibrant World (2017)

Ice melt barriers disappearing by the double: Undersea anchors of ice that help prevent Antarctica’s land ice from slipping into the ocean are shrinking at more than twice the rate compared with 50 years ago…

New discovery suggests significant glacial retreat in West Antarctica began in 1940s

Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Began Melting In Mid-20th Century, Study Finds

Observational evidence for a regime shift in summer Antarctic sea ice

El Niño May Have Kicked Off Thwaites Glacier Retreat - Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” started losing mass midcentury, around the same time as its neighboring glacier.

The Role Of Greenland And Antarctica In Sea Level Rise

Evidence, contained within an ice core, shows that in one location the West Antarctic Ice Sheet thinned by 450 metres — that’s more than the height of the Empire State Building — in just under 200 years

The Wilkes Subglacial Basin in East Antarctica, which holds enough ice to raise global sea levels by more than 10feet/3meters, could be closer to runaway melting than anyone realized

New colonies of penguins spotted in Antarctica bring hope for threatened species

Scientists Discover Four New Emperor Penguin Colonies From Satellite Images of Antarctica

South American claims in Antarctica (2022)

Satellites used to spot new emperor penguin colonies in the Antarctic from space

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station

The perils and pleasures of bartending in Antarctica (2017)

Record of fungal and plant remains suggest a warmer and humid Antarctica during the Miocene Climatic Optimum, when atmospheric pCO2 levels were similar to those projected for the end of the 21st century.

History of Antarctica revealed in octopus DNA

New study suggests West Antarctica Ice Sheet could collapse even under stringent climate mitigation scenarios, potentially raising see levels up to 10 meters over next centuries

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