Antarctica

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…

Emperor penguins and three-metre sea level rises: the cost of Antarctica’s warming Sea levels could rise by three metres and emperor penguins could be extinct in 75 years as large and abrupt changes unfolding in Antarctica pose profound implications for Australia and the Pacific. These are among the findings of…

Many ships have tried to reach the floating tongue of Thwaites Glacier—a 130-kilometer-wide conveyor belt of ice that slides off West Antarctica’s coast and splinters into the sea. Thwaites is rapidly destabilizing, and precise mapping of the seafloor and ocean currents surrounding it are urgently needed to know how much…

A 20-year-old American pilot who is traveling across the globe to raise money for childhood cancer research has been stuck in Antarctica for more than a month after he was accused of illegally landing there. Ethan Guo, then 19, began his journey in Memphis, Tennessee, in September 2024 to raise…

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Dennis Bell (left) with his fellow colleagues and the dogs that helped them to work in Antarctica. The photo was taken midwinter 1959 at Admiralty Bay Base. CREDIT: Unknown/Supplied by British Antarctic Survey. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. The remains of…

August 12, 2025 / 12:04 PM EDT / CBS/AP What was intended as a fundraising mission has become a nightmare for American teen influencer Ethan Guo , who has been stuck in a remote location in Chilean territory in Antarctica since June. Last year, Guo began a journey to become…

10 unusually dark cloud holes were spotted swirling as they scattered across the skies over Heard Island in 2016. (Image credit: NASA/Landsat/Jeff Schmaltz/MODIS) QUICK FACTS Where is it? Heard Island, Indian Ocean What's in the photo? An unusual stream of von Kármán vortices trailing off a hidden peak Which satellite…

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