Antarctica

There are areas on Earth that are less understood than the surfaces of some worlds in our Solar System. Antarctica’s landscape beneath its immense ice sheet is one of them. Hidden from view, this buried terrain still holds many secrets and revealing them could significantly improve our understanding of ice…

In 2027, triathlon history will be made with the inaugural extreme triathlon in Antarctica. Dubbed A100, the event will bring together 50 elite athletes from around the globe to challenge themselves in one of the harshest environments on Earth. The race is scheduled from February 27 to March 8 on…

This week has been particularly tragic for French divers, with one going missing in a cave in France and another going missing at a French research station on the coast of Antarctica. A French Polar Institute diver went missing during a dive below the ice in Antarctica off the Dumon…

True-color satellite image of Earth centred on the South Pole with cloud coverage, during winter solstice at 12 a.m GMT. This image in orthographic projection was compiled from data acquired by the Landsat 5 & 7 satellites. (Image credit: Planet Observer/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) One of the least-mapped…

The full Nautilus archive • eBooks & Special Editions • Ad-free reading The full Nautilus archive eBooks & Special Editions Ad-free reading You’re looking at one of the quickest moving glaciers in the world—the bright hues added to this satellite image of Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland represent the average speed…

It's easy to see features like Stonington Island off the west coast of Graham Island, Antarctica, but now a new map shows scientists what lies beneath in unprecedented detail. (Image credit: kitz-travellers/Getty Images) Scientists have mapped the bedrock beneath Antarctica 's massive ice sheet in unprecedented detail, revealing hidden structures…

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future generations to study as global warming melts glaciers around the world. An ice core is something of an atmospheric time capsule...Read More

The mesoscale topographical variability beneath a continent-scale ice sheet is revealed...Read More

As Donald Trump fights for control of arctic Greenland, is he losing at the other end of the world and leaving it open for rivals like China? While US designs on Greenland are entirely deliberate, withdrawal of influence in Antarctica appears to be accidental. Proposed cuts to climate-related research -…

They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a small group of scientific specialists searching the world’s oceans for tiny streams of methane gas-filled globules rising from seafloor sediments. On expeditions ranging from the Arctic to Antarctica, carried out in shallow waters…