Antarctica

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Antarctica, a land synonymous with ice and snow, was once a thriving rainforest teeming with life. This stunning revelation stems from the discovery of amber fragments, offering irrefutable evidence of a temperate, forested past on the frozen continent. Exploring the world's coldest inhabited destinations Facebook Twitter Pintrest An international team…

Published Nov 17th, 2024 10:34AM EST Picture Antarctica—not as an endless expanse of snow and ice, but as a lush, green rainforest teeming with towering trees and mysterious plants. It sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, but thanks to a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have proof that this icy continent…

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Researchers found Antarctica's first ever piece of amber in sediment cores collected from the seafloor off the icy continent's coast. (Image credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / V. Schumacher) For the first time, researchers have discovered a piece of fossilized resin, or amber, in Antarctica. The tiny golden fragment, unearthed beneath the seafloor,…

As keen navigators of the wild, penguins often wander the far limits of their territories. Normally, these ice-cold explorations are pretty short-lived. But in an astonishing feat, one emperor penguin, alone and malnourished, recently made landfall on a beach in Australia, more than 2,000 miles away from its native Antarctica. …

The first ever piece of the Antarctic amber was found in a sediment core from the mid-shelf section of Pine Island trough in Antarctica. Pine Island amber. Scale bars – 50 μm. Image credit: Klages et al., doi: 10.1017/S0954102024000208. “Resin is a direct plant product defined as a lipid-soluble mixture…

Australia | After a 2,000-Mile Trip, a Penguin Finds Itself on an Australian Beach https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/world/australia/emperor-penguin-australia-antarctica.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. “This is the furthest north I’ve heard…

Since September, the polar night of winter has been spreading steadily southward in the Arctic. But sea ice hasn't been keeping pace. During October, growth of the floating ice was held back by significantly warmer temperatures than average. All told, October saw the fourth lowest extent of Arctic sea ice…

The new Discovery Building at the Rothera Research Station Specialist teams are arriving at Rothera, the UK’s Antarctic research station, to complete the Discovery Building, a purpose-built scientific support and operations facility that will support the whole of the station. The construction teams arriving in Rothera will first clear snow…