Antarctica

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…

by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 January 2026 / 1,829 Views Publisher PARCO GAMES and developer RexLabo announced the atmospheric science-fiction exploration game,  Nova Antarctica , will launch for PC via  Steam  on January 29. "Nova Antarctica began as a question: what happens to humanity when the world goes quiet?" said RexLabo…

January 7, 2026 4 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Capsizing icebergs are violently clashing with the crumbling end of the Doomsday Glacier By Thanh-Son Pham & The Conversation US Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is seen in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on March…

January 6, 2026 1 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is why By Andrea Thompson edited by Claire Cameron Flags mark the ceremonial South Pole. Galen Rowell/Getty Images Join Our…

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. (Image credit: Anna Ruth Halberstadt / CC BY-NC-ND) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered…