Antarctica

The Carlini base on King George Island, hosting the seismometer located closest to the seismic region, and the Bransfield Strait. Credit: Milton Percy Plasencia Linares In a remote area, a mix of geophysical methods identifies magma transfer below the seafloor as the cause. Even off the coast of Antarctica, volcanoes…

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth and casts its shadow on Earth. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio On April 30, 2022, a partial solar eclipse will be visible in parts of South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific and Southern Oceans. On Saturday, April…

Researchers say that a series of about 85,000 earthquakes occurred in the waters near Antarctica for a few months in 2020 near an underwater volcano. File Photo by Ben Holt Sr./NASA/UPI | License Photo April 27 (UPI) -- According to new research, scientists have discovered that a series of more…

Eric Bourne and Stephen Carpenter became the first gay couple to get married in the British Antarctic Territory. Photo: British Antarctic Survey/ Rich Turner. Antarctica hosted its first gay wedding when a same-sex couple working onboard the polar research ship RRS Sir David Attenborough got married on Sunday.  Eric Bourne…

Scientists have uncovered a swarm of more than 85,000 deep-sea earthquakes associated with undersea volcanic activity. The research was conducted at the Orca volcano site, which lies between Antarctica and the tip of South America, using remote sensing technologies. South America 3d isolated. Elements of this image furnished by NASA…

Home News Skywatching The moon passes in front of the sun in the only total solar eclipse of 2021 in this still from a video captured by Theo Boris and Christian Lockwood of the JM Pasachoff Antarctic Expedition from their observing point in Union Glacier, Antarctica on Dec. 4, 2021.…

Home News Skywatching Update for 6:14 pm ET: TimeandDate.com's webcast for the partial solar eclipse of April 30, 2022 from Chile and Argentina has ended as the sun has set during mid-eclipse. Check out the amazing views from the video above. Read our full wrap story on the solar eclipse.…

Pristine snow and ice reflect more than 80 percent of the Sun's energy back into space. Sea ice around Antarctica shrank to the smallest extent on record in February, five years after the previous record low, researchers said Tuesday, suggesting Earth's frozen continent may be less impervious to climate change…

Narrow corridors of air loaded with moisture straight from the tropics may be driving a series of ice shelf collapses in the fastest-warming part of Antarctica, scientists have found. Why it matters: Ice shelves act like doorstops, holding back the land-based ice behind them. When they are lost or weakened,…

BIOREMEDIATION Nature Biotechnology volume 40, page 444 (2022)Cite this article 853 Accesses 14 Altmetric Metrics details The next step is to tackle an altogether greater polluter: plastic. The Antarctic Institute’s team is trawling databases in silico and applying metagenomics to identify a new set of local microbial volunteers to deal with this…