Antarctica

Home News Science & Astronomy Collecting a meteorite on the Nansen blue ice area, close to the Belgian Antarctic research station Princess Elisabeth. (Image credit: Field team of the BELARE 2019-2020 meteorite recovery expedition on the Nansen Ice Field.) An artificial intelligence program suggests there may be hundreds of thousands…

Home News Gentoo penguins tend to their chicks on Andersson Island, Antarctica. (Image credit: © Tomás Munita/Greenpeace) Scientists have discovered a previously unknown colony of gentoo penguins in one of the southernmost spots these waddling birds have ever been spotted. The discovery is a cause for concern, according to the…

Researchers like David Holland, an atmospheric scientist at New York University, are in a race to understand the fate of a massive glacier in West Antarctica that has earned a disquieting nickname: "The Doomsday Glacier." Why it matters: Studies show the Thwaites Glacier (its official name) could already be on…

Home News (Image credit: ESA/SENTINEL-1) After the world's largest iceberg snapped off of the Antarctic Peninsula in July 2017, it drifted north on a three-year death march, shedding an unfathomable amount of meltwater into the sea. Now, a new study of the doomed iceberg (named A68a) reveals just how much…

A giant iceberg that detached from Antarctica in 2017 released the equivalent of 61 million Olympic-sized swimming pools of fresh water as it melted, according to research published on Thursday, raising questions over the impact on the marine ecosystem. The monstrous iceberg was twice the size of Luxembourg when it…

Icefish in the Weddell Sea. Credit: PS118, AWI OFOBS team Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on January 13, 2022, have discovered a massive breeding colony of notothenioid icefish in Antarctica’s southern Weddell Sea. They estimate that the colony covers at least 240 square kilometers and includes about 60…

1/5 On January 18, 1997, Norwegian Borge Ousland (R) completed a 1,675-mile trek across Antarctica. It was the first time anyone traversed the continent alone. File Photo by Laurent Gillieron/EPA Jan. 18 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1778, James Cook became the first European to reach the…

A vast breeding colony of a fish species called the Jonah’s icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah) has been discovered in the southern Weddell Sea, Antarctica. The nests of the Jonah’s icefish (Neopagetopsis ionah) in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica. Image credit: Purser et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.12.022. The Jonah’s icefish is a species of…

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Using a towed camera system, a team of scientists recently discovered the world’s largest fish breeding area near the Filchner Ice Shelf in the south of the Antarctic Weddell Sea. They photographed and filmed several nests of icefish of the species Neopagetopsis. The unique observations are made with a so-called…