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As Donald Trump cuts funding to Antarctica, will the US be forced off the icy continent? Antarctica

As Donald Trump cuts funding to Antarctica, will the US be forced off the icy continent?

President Donald Trump has begun eroding the United States presence in Antarctica by announcing deep funding cuts to his nation’s science and logistics on the icy continent. The Trump administration has significantly reduced funding for both Antarctica’s largest research and logistics station, McMurdo, and the National Science Foundation which funds…
bubmag
May 12, 2025
Earth may not have gotten its water how we thought, controversial meteorite study suggests Antarctica

Earth may not have gotten its water how we thought, controversial meteorite study suggests

(Image credit: The ANSMET (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) Program, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Utah.) The chemical composition of a meteorite could shake up scientists' understanding of how Earth got its water. Researchers found signs of hydrogen sulfide in a type of meteorite similar to those that…
bubmag
May 5, 2025
Antarctica’s Astonishing Rebound: Ice Sheet Grows for the First Time in Decades Antarctica

Antarctica’s Astonishing Rebound: Ice Sheet Grows for the First Time in Decades

Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant instabilities in major glacier basins of East Antarctica as well as across the entire ice sheet. The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) plays a major role in global sea-level rise. Since March 2002...Read More
bubmag
April 30, 2025