Antarctica

A humpback whale breaches off the coast of Port Stephens, north of Sydney, Australia last week. Mark Baker/Alamy Stock Photo a whale of a time They travel from feeding grounds in freezing Antarctica to tropical breeding areas off Queensland state. THE FERRY WAS late, but not because of the usual…

British Antarctic Survey Professor Mike Meredith is an oceanographer at British Antarctic Survey. He concludes a first of its kind science cruise on the RRS Sir David Attenborough conducting research in the polar winter. Winter in Antarctica is typically the preserve of the few hardy souls who "winter over" at…

South Africa’s southern coastline turns into a natural whale-viewing theatre from June through November. Southern right whales migrate from Antarctica to the country’s warmer waters to breed and calve – and they often do it close enough to shore that you can see them from your hotel balcony, a cliff…

Face the Horror in NEDRA Solo developer Davit Andreasyan, in collaboration with indie.io, has launched NEDRA, a first-person survival horror set in Soviet-era Antarctica. Now available on Steam for $14.99 with a 20% launch discount, this game drops players into the boots of Artur Arayan, a mechanic thrust into a…

The discovery of Litoria tylerantiqua suggests that Australian treefrogs (pelodryadids) were present in Australia by the Early Eocene, when the continent was still connected to Antarctica and South America as the last remnants of the supercontinent Gondwana. An artist’s reconstruction of Litoria tylerantiqua (right) and the previously-described species Platyplectrum casca…

In the bitter cold of the Arctic and Antarctica, bubbles could become the ideal way to send messages. Communicating in these regions is easier said than done, as the extreme sub-zero temperatures often constrain equipment with high energy demands. To solve this issue, scientists have pioneered a plan to introduce…

Neutrinos are ghostly particles—no charge, barely any mass, and yet they flood the cosmos. Born in places like the Sun, exploding stars, and even the Big Bang itself, they race through us by the trillions every second, silently. But here’s the twist: they’re almost impossible to catch. That’s why scientists…

Glaciers melting rapidly, fields of moss expanding, water streaming off ice shelves once frozen solid: these are just a few of the impacts of climate change observed by a team of 57 researchers during a 70-day voyage around the Antarctic coast on the Russian icebreaker Akademik Tryoshnikov...Read More

The unusual radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment, a range of instruments flown on NASA balloons high above Antarctica that are designed to detect radio waves from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere. The goal of the experiment is to gain insight into distant cosmic…

Ammonia from penguin guano boosts cloud formation, potentially helping Antarctica resist climate change. Ammonia from penguin guano could be playing a surprising role in protecting Antarctica from the effects of climate change. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment reveals that emissions from Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) may…