Antarctica

Videos showing the turbulent journey to Antarctica have taken off on TikTok in recent weeks, with multiple creators sharing footage of their boat rides through the Drake Passage. But why does it seem like so many travel vloggers are suddenly visiting Antarctica? The Drake Passage is the body of water…

Home News The Viking Polaris, a Norwegian-flagged cruise ship, is seen anchored by Ushuaia, southern Argentina, on Dec. 1, about two days after a suspected rogue wave hit it, killing one passenger. (Image credit: Alexis Delelisi/AFP via Getty Images) A suspected "rogue wave" recently smashed into a cruise ship sailing…

A 62-year-old American woman was pronounced dead after a “rogue wave” slammed into a Viking cruise ship en route to Antarctica. The “rogue wave incident” occurred at around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday as the Viking Polaris was sailing to Ushuaia, Argentina–approximately 2,000 miles south of Buenos Aries–before departing for Antarctica next week,…

This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In the Antarctic, the fur seal population is booming. Having rebounded from near eradication by hunters in the early 20th century, Antarctic fur seals are making their way…

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An international meeting dedicated to the conservation of Antarctica’s delicate ocean ecosystems has once again ended in deadlock. For the sixth year in a row, members of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)—part of the Antarctic Treaty System—failed to agree on any new marine protected…

Home News A surface phytoplankton bloom in the Ross Sea in Antarctica captured by NASA's Aqua satellite on Jan. 11 2011. New research suggests blooms like this may also exist further beneath the surface in both of Earth's polar regions. (Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory/Norman Kuring,/Goddard Space Flight Center) (opens…

Antarctica is one of the most extreme environments on Earth. It is also one of the most unexplored. Many of us think of the continent as a vast, white wasteland, populated by nothing more than penguins and seals. But beneath its icy surface, scientists are beginning to discover vast networks…

Nov. 15, 2022Updated: Nov. 15, 2022 3:34 p.m. This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of12A general view of the British Antarctic Survey Ship Sir David Attenborough from the helicopter deck on the berth in Harwich, England, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Britain's polar research ship, named after…

CLIMATE SCIENCE Space station carbon mapper faces demise An orbiting fridge-size sensor that uses lasers to map forest structure—key to understanding how much carbon trees sequester—is set to plummet to a fiery destruction in the atmosphere in 2023 unless NASA extends its tenure. Researchers and some U.S. Congress members are…