Antarctica

A scientist holds one of the watermelons outside the station's greenhouse.  (Image credit: Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI))Scientists have successfully grown watermelons in an unlikely place: Antarctica. The agricultural feat was part of an experiment at Vostok Station, a year-round Russian research station located at the Pole of Cold,…

Conspiracy theorists have been turning their attention to Antarctica more than you’d expect over recent years. First, there was the case of the “bleeding waterfalls”, which remains one of the strangest natural phenomena you're likely to see, and there’s also the mystery of a so-called “pyramid” which has been found…

CNN  —  As the Northern Hemisphere swelters under a record-breaking summer heat wave, much further south, in the depths of winter, another terrifying climate record is being broken. Antarctic sea ice has fallen to unprecedented lows for this time of year. Every year, Antarctic sea ice shrinks to its lowest…

Even if you’re not into geography, you probably know Antarctica is a freezing continent unsuitable for humans. However, it seems a pyramid has been found there with curious metrics. And that’s not all — let’s take a look. Scientists have discovered a mountain-like structure beneath the ice in Antarctica, resembling a pyramid. People have been intrigued by the discovery of a massive pyramid-shaped…

By Spooky on July 27th, 2023 Category: Travel A pyramid-shaped peak in Antarctica’s Ellsworth Mountain range has been fueling all sorts of conspiracy theories involving aliens and ancient civilizations for at least seven years. Satellite images of a pyramid-shaped mountain peak in Antarctica first appeared on the internet in 2016.…

It wasn’t all bad Good news stories from the past seven days Two brothers from Aberdeenshire have built model boats that they hope will circumnavigate Antarctica. Ollie and Harry Ferguson, 13 and 11, were inspired by the Ross expedition of 1839-43, which led to the discovery of the Ross Ice…

Environment Alec Luhn joins the UK’s new state-of-the-art polar research ship for trials in the North Sea ahead of its first scientific expedition to Antarctica By Alec Luhn The state-of-the-art polar research ship Sir David Attenborough is being tested in the North Sea Alec Luhn On the Antarctic research ship…

Non-native house mice arrived on Marion Island in the southern Indian Ocean two centuries ago, when the island was a stopping-off point for sealing ships.Their population has exploded recently, as temperatures warm and summers lengthen. With more mouths to feed, they’ve gutted their main food source — insects — and…

On June 27, 2023, sea ice extent in Antarctica was 1 million square miles (2.6 million square km) below the long-term average for this time of year. (Image credit: Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Antarctic sea ice levels reached record-breaking lows last week — and this "extraordinary behavior" could mark…

Ken Livi, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, may have finally discovered the secret behind the mysterious “Blood Falls” of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. Discovered over 100 years ago during the infamous Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica in 1911, the “Blood Falls” were named after the bright red water that…