Antarctica

Microsoft Flight Simulator's World Update XIII: Oceania and Antarctica is available for free across Xbox platforms and PC, sending players to remote and exotic regions of Earth. This new update offers a slew of content, including access to additional countries and territories such as Fiji, New Guinea, and the Galapagos…

Something very odd seems to be happening in the Southern Ocean, that vast body of cold sea water surrounding Antarctica which absorbs heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new research project led by ocean scientists in South Africa suggests that there has been a significant, five-fold increase in…

Before leaving port, I gather with the rest of the members of the expedition in a mustard yellow warehouse to receive our ECWs, or extreme cold weather kits.  “Zippers break,” some bearded guy says as he hands me an orange duffel bag stuffed with dozens of articles of government-issued outerwear,…

Wind was the first thing I heard in the morning, along with a door opening and closing as someone got up first and went out to use the outhouse. Sounds reached into my awareness through the fog of sleep. Then: the lighter button of the propane heater pressed, a metallic…

An aerial image of B-22A captured by NASA's Terra satellite on Feb. 2, 2022.  (Image credit: NASA/MODIS/Terra satellite)An enormous iceberg that first broke off Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" more than 20 years ago is finally waving goodbye to the icy continent after being freed from the seafloor, which had trapped the…

An illustrated reconstruction of a sauropod skull discovered in Australia, which paleontologists say belongs to the species Diamantinasaurus matildae. (Image credit: Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum)A nearly 100 million-year-old, exceptionally well-preserved sauropod skull discovered in Australia may show that dinosaurs trudged across Antarctica from South America to Australia, researchers have…

An enormous iceberg that set off from the Antarctic coast in late 2022 has been photographed by NASA satellites as it drifts away into the Southern Ocean. The iceberg, known as B-22A, is around 1,158 square miles in area—around 4 times the size of New York City. The piece floating…

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In 1895, seven men from the Norwegian whaling ship Antarctic made the first substantiated landing on the Antarctic continent. But four long decades passed before a woman could claim the same. Antarctica, with its extreme temperatures and barren wastelands, was viewed for many years as the perfect battleground for men…

Home News Science & Astronomy On Feb. 21, Antarctica's sea ice retreated to its lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979. (Image credit: Shutterstock) The amount of sea ice surrounding Antarctica has reached its lowest level since modern records began, for the second year in a row.  Sea ice…