30% Less Than Average: Antarctic Sea Ice Levels Lowest Ever Recorded
The ice levels were measured at almost 30% less than the average over the previous ten years. The Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest…
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Bringing Magma From Deep Underground Up to Our Feet – Just Add CO2
Mount Erebus, Antarctica’s only active volcano, shows how CO2 allows volcanoes to form persistent lava lakes at the surface. Antarctica has long been a land…
Tracking the Demise of One of the World’s Largest-Known Icebergs
Researchers recently chronicled the death throes of A-68A, one of the world’s largest-known icebergs. As soon as an iceberg is born it starts to die….
Groundwater Discovered in Sediments Buried Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice
The study proves the value of electromagnetic techniques in a new polar environment. Researchers have made the first detection of groundwater beneath an Antarctic ice…
Ice Lost, Island Found? Eastern Coast of Antarctica Appears To Have Gained an Island
An unnamed mound of white off East Antarctica seems to be an island. The eastern coast of Antarctica has lost the majority of the Glenzer…
Scientists Discover a Massive Groundwater System in Sediments Below Antarctic Ice
Previously unmapped reservoirs could speed glaciers and release carbon. Many researchers believe that liquid water is a key to understanding the behavior of the frozen…
New Link Demonstrated Between Greenhouse Gasses and Sea Level Rise
A new study provides the first evidence that rising greenhouse gases have a long-term warming effect on the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica. Scientists from…
Breakup at Land Glacier: Old Sea Ice Crumbled Away off the Coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land
In March 2022, old sea ice crumbled away as new ice formed off the coast of Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land. Sea ice around Antarctica started…
Fast Yearly Retreat of Antarctica’s Sea Ice Explained by Simple Rules of Physics
In the Southern Hemisphere, the ice cover around Antarctica gradually expands from March to October each year. During this time the total ice area increases…
Ice Shelf Completely Disintegrates in East Antarctica
The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable. It is relatively common for…
Antarctic Sea Ice Sinks to Record Low
The long-term trend for sea ice in the south is flat, while the global trend points downward. In February 2022, sea ice around Antarctica reached…
Sea Ice That Slowed the Flow of Antarctic Glaciers Abruptly Shatters in Just 3 Days
In just three days in late January, a mass of ice the size of Philadelphia fragmented from the Larsen-B embayment on the Antarctic Peninsula and…
March of the Antarctic Icebergs
After nearly pummeling the vulnerable Brunt Ice Shelf, a flock of Antarctic icebergs settles in for the austral winter. In summer 2019, a rift that…
The Endurance Shipwreck Is a Bridge to a Bygone Age, and a Reminder of Antarctica’s Uncertain Future
The wreck of Endurance is a bridge to a bygone age, and a reminder of Antarctica’s uncertain future. Superbly clear images of the shipwreck Endurance,…
Enduring Antarctic Sea Ice – Icebreaker Cut Through on Expedition That Located Shackleton’s Lost Ship
An icebreaker cut through persistent sea ice in the Weddell Sea during an expedition that ultimately located Shackleton’s lost ship. An international expedition has located the…
Ernest Shackleton’s Ship Endurance – Lost in 1915 – Found 10,000 Feet Below the Ocean’s Surface in Antarctica
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has…
The Long Goodbye: Twilight at Research Station Concordia
Twilight is a long affair at research station Concordia, situated just a few 1000 km from the South Pole. The Sun disappears completely behind the…
As Many as 300,000 Meteorites Await Discovery in Antarctica
Finding Meteorite Hotspots in Antarctica As many as 300,000 meteorites await discovery atop the continent’s ice, and now scientists have a map showing where to…