Antarctica

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…

Chief Secretary Eric Chan says it's extraordinary that Hong Kong scientists are joining the country's latest Antarctica exploration, with icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2 setting sail along with a third ship on Friday. The mission to the South Pole is China's 41st and will last for more than half a…

Using the unmanned submarine Ran, researchers mapped the underside of West Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, uncovering complex ice formations and significant melt areas driven by...Read More

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Paleontologists have unearthed two fossilized phalanges of an ancient carnivorous bird on Seymour Island, Antarctica. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Early Eocene continental communities of Seymour Island: a large cariamiform bird hunting a medium-sized ungulate and staring at Notiolofos regueroi, a couple of marsupials on a tree, Antarctoboenus carlinii flying on…

Editor’s note, April 16, 2024: An earlier version of this article included a rounded figure for the Arctic Ocean’s sea ice extent on March 14. The story below has been updated with a more specific figure. Sea ice at both the top and bottom of the planet continued its decline…

Editors' notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: fact-checked trusted source written by researcher(s) proofread by Sergi González Herrero, The Conversation Record-breaking temperatures during the heatwave on 6 February 2020. Credit: González-Herrero et…

Dinosaurs get all the glory. But aetosaurs, a heavily armored cousin of modern crocodiles, ruled the world before dinosaurs did. These tanks of the Triassic came in a variety of shapes and sizes before going extinct around 200 million years ago. Today, their fossils are found on every continent except…