Antarctica

As reported in the new study, increased snowfall will offset any sea-level rise in the world’s most southern continent. The study by over 60 researchers and 44 institutions used modern methods to calculate projected changes to sea levels. Using a new generation of climate models used in the newly published…

Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge Researchers map the geothermal heat flow in West Antarctica; a new potential weak spot in the ice sheet’s stability is identified. Ice losses from Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica are currently responsible for roughly four percent of the global sea-level rise. This figure could increase,…

Ed Sheeran doesn't want his daughter to become a pop star. The 'Shape of You' hitmaker and his wife Cherry welcomed their first child Lyra Antarctica into the world in August 2020 but Ed is already thinking about what his baby girl might do with her life. The singer is…

Home News Science & Astronomy A NASA satellite in space that shoots a laser beam down to Earth has spotted still more subsurface lakes sandwiched between Antarctica's land and ice.  Antarctica is land with hundreds of feet or meters of ice sitting atop it. In between these two layers, elements…

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Technically, the first step in building Wolf’s Fang Camp, a 12-person tented accommodation opening in November in the interior of Antarctica, happened over a decade ago: conjuring an airport in the middle of the wilderness with a runway paved into 100,000-year-old sheets of ice. © New Straits Times Press (M)…

(Reuters) - Cyprus. Cuba. Turkey. Canada. Northern Ireland. Antarctica. All recorded their hottest-ever temperatures in the last two years, and according to a new study, more such extremes are coming. In the next three decades, "record-shattering" heat waves could become two to seven times more frequent in the world than…

Ionospheric anomalies observed on Sept. 15, 2019, over North America. Anomalies are shown for TEC (total electron content) and expressed as percentage compared to the average values for this season. A 50-80 percent increase in TEC observed over the western United States is linked to the Antarctic sudden stratospheric warming.…

New Zealand has exported $80,000 worth of stuffed toys, almost $20,000 worth of chocolate and a staggering $1.5 million worth of alcohol to Antarctica since 1990. Photo: RNZ / Vinay Ranchhod Of all New Zealand's exports to Antarctica, alcohol topped the spending list, aircraft came second - and included a…

Ferrous Iron is Divalent, Ferric Iron is Trivalent. Non-Ferrous is something that doesn't have significant iron. Read More