Antarctica

University of Otago -- Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka scientists have successfully analysed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate change. The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans,…

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The size of the Antarctic ice sheet can be hard to comprehend. Two kilometres thick on average and covering nearly twice the area of Australia, the ice sheet holds enough freshwater to raise global sea levels by 58 metres. Ice loss from this sheet is projected to be the leading…

A partial solar eclipse from Malton, England, on March 20, 2015. (Image credit: mtking via Getty Images) On Sunday, Sept. 21, 2025, a deep partial solar eclipse will be visible from some remote areas of the Southern Hemisphere. Despite being a partial solar eclipse , it will be relatively major.…

Updated : , ,   The world’s biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals. The trillion-ton slab of ice — called a megaberg — could slam into South…

The world's largest iceberg -- a behemoth more than twice the size of London -- is drifting toward a remote island where scientists say it could run aground and threaten penguins and seals. The gigantic wall of ice is moving slowly from Antarctica on a potential collision course with South…

Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny crustaceans that make up the base of the food chain. Krill are also sought after by humans, who scoop them up using massive fishing boats, potentially putting whales in danger, scientists warn. The fishing…

On January 1, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured images of the Antarctica Amery ice shelf, showing that meltwater remained visible atop the ice sheet’s surface. By late 2024, Antarctica had already experienced significant melting along its coastal areas, even though the melt season was less than…

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Image credit: Data courtesy of Landsat 8 satellite (Bands: 2, 3, 4, 8) & USGS. Data processed by Paul Quast. O.V.E.R.V.I.E.W. via Flickr, CC BY 2.0) "Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica 's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, could dramatically…

Published Jan 13th, 2025 7:45PM EST An international team has successfully extracted the world’s oldest ice sample from Antarctica. Spanning 1.2 million years of climate history, this ancient ice core promises to unveil secrets about Earth’s past climate systems and help us understand the climate of Earth’s future. This achievement…