Antarctica

Fossilized charcoal shows once-temperate Antarctica was often hit by wildfires, report says... (Third column, 16th story, link...Read More

Home News The Endurance against a pale Antarctic sky, stuck in the pack ice. Shackleton's voyage went down in history as being uniquely disastrous and surprisingly successful all at once. Despite losing the ship and enduring almost unthinkable conditions, the crew all escaped Antarctica with their lives. (Image credit: Stuart…

Home News Dinosaurs attempt to flee a wildfire on Antarctica during the late Cretaceous. (Image credit: Illustration by Maurilio Oliveira; De Lima, F.J. et al. Polar Research (2021); CC BY 4.0)Raging wildfires tore through Antarctica 75 million years ago, back when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth, a new study finds.…

A mammoth potential of 500 billion barrels in hydrocarbon “resources” — the building blocks for oil and gas — might be buried in supergiant oilfields beneath the Southern Ocean, the climate-threatened waters that wrap around Antarctica, according to Russian state entities.  Key points There are 500 billion barrels of Southern…

In what could sound like a science fiction movie plot, scientists from the Planetary Habitability and Technology Lab, which is relocating from Georgia Tech to Cornell, will be conducting an under-Antarctic-ice robotic survey in February 2022. The team will use an unmanned underwater vehicle called Icefin to explore under the…

Valkyrie Racing has turned to Tuthill Porsche to transform its 356A into a snow-bashing beast Philanthropist Renee Brinkerhoff has been busy racking up close to 20,000 over six continents in a plucky Porsche 356A under the guise of ‘Valkyrie Racing’ in recent years. The endeavour is all about a non-profit…

Supplied Southern Lakes Helicopters Te Anau pilot Andrew Hefford helps load the company’s squirrel helicopter onto a US Airforce Boeing C17 Globemaster in Christchurch on October 11. The helicopter, pilot and an engineer were flown to Antarctica where they will fly scientists around the continent. Southland helicopter pilots will resume…

Paul Peticoff, left, checks a customer’s proof of vaccination at Diana’s Oyster Bar and Grill in Scarborough, Ont., on Oct. 5, 2021. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Restaurants Canada says it’s “extremely disappointed” that the Ontario government has chosen to lift capacity limits in some venues, but not for the…

A research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has completed a first-ever global population estimate of Weddell seals in Antarctica, showing that there are significantly fewer seals than previously thought. Documenting the seals' population trends over time will help scientists better understand the effects of climate change…

Ice melange, a combination of ice shelf fragments, windblown snow and frozen seawater, can act as a glue to fuse large rifts in floating ice in Antarctica. Researchers at UCI and NASA JPL found that a thinning of the substance over time can cause rifts to open, leading to the…