Antarctica

When we think of the creatures that call Antarctica home, emperor penguins, seals, and orcas may be the first few animals to cross our minds. However, as a Chicago-sized iceberg broke away from the George VI Ice Shelf early in January 2025, researchers found the area teeming with life. The…

Nearly 40 years after breaking away from the Filchner – Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica, the A23a iceberg is finally beginning to melt and merge into the ocean for good. A23a ranks among the oldest and largest icebergs ever recorded and remains the biggest block of frozen freshwater on the...Read…

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Long-term studies help scientists understand how species and ecosystems change, adapt, or struggle. With today’s fast-paced global shifts and growing environmental threats, this kind of monitoring is more important than ever. Antarctica is changing fast, and that’s a big deal for the plants and animals specially built to survive its…

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not a simple cap of frozen water, but an extraordinarily complex interplay between the…

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is shrinking rapidly, the floating glaciers known as ice shelves are melting faster, the ice sheets carpeting the continent are approaching…

There was no tsunami threat after Thursday's earthquake of magnitude 7.5 in the Drake Passage between South America and Antarctica, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said, following its brief warning for Chilean coastal areas. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) revised down the quake magnitude, initially reported at 8, adding…

A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Drake Passage on Thursday, the waters between South America's southern tip and Antarctica. Chile's Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service issued a tsunami precaution for the Chilean Antarctic territory following an 8.0-magnitude earthquake that struck 258 km (160 miles)northwest of Base Frei on Wednesday evening,…

Human Impact, Climate Crisis Ravage AntarcticaRead More

Ongoing loss of Antarctic sea ice could result in amplified warming in Australia and the rest of the southern hemisphere as scientists warn the icy continent is at risk of "abrupt and potentially irreversible changes". Regional temperatures above global averages are among possible "knock-on effects" from disappearing sea ice and…