Antarctica

The discovery of an established community consisting of only sessile, probably filter-feeding, organisms. In a first of its kind study, scientists discovered stationary animals attached to a seafloor’s boulder in Antarctica. The animals consisting of only sessile, probably filter feeding, organisms (sponges and other taxa).  Scientists drilled through 900 meters…

January 12, 2021. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Two years after the Brunt Ice Shelf seemed poised to produce a berg twice the size of New York City, the ice is still hanging on. But the calving of one, maybe two, large icebergs is inevitable. The question is: when? Ice…

NIWA NIWA ship Tangaroa faces rough seas on journey home from its Antarctic Voyage. Niwa’s flagship research vessel RV Tangaroa is nearing the end of its Antarctic voyage, but not without passing through some rough seas on the way. The 45-day voyage set sail towards the Southern Ocean and Ross…

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Feb. 5, 2021Updated: Feb. 5, 2021 3:56 p.m. 1of6Paul Grisham and his wife Carole Salazar look over his wallet and the items that were inside when he lost the wallet back in 1968 at their home in the San Carlos section of San Diego, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Grisham’s wallet…

Above the frozen ocean, Antarctica can be eerily quiet. Gusts of wind are often all one hears. Below, though, the Southern Ocean is a living soundscape dominated by Weddell seals. These pinnipeds typically emit high-pitched pings that sound like laser guns in a science-fiction movie. But that is not their…

FRANK JORDANS and SETH BORENSTEIN, Associated Press Jan. 28, 2021Updated: Jan. 28, 2021 3:34 p.m. 1of3FILE - In this file photo dated December 10 1995, showing Dutch Professor Paul J. Crutzen, left, receiving the Nobel prize for chemistry from Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. According…

The frozen kingdom of Antarctica may appear featureless from above, but beneath all that ice lies a mysterious and complex world that researchers say could be pivotal to understanding the effects of climate change.  It’s well established that the Antarctic ice sheet has been rapidly losing mass. As ocean temperatures…

Updated 20 hours ago · Published on 24 Jan 2021 7:00PM · A warning to abandon coastal areas sent by accident due to technical error saw Chileans running into the streets in panic and making their way to higher ground out of fear of a tsunami. – EPA pic, January…

A New Addition to The Thing‘s Haunting Legacy Antarctica. 14.2 square kilometers of ice and rock, a stretch of land twice the size of Australia and virtually uninhabited. It’s one of the least hospitable environments the earth has to offer. No wonder people are scared of it. And where there’s fear,…