Antarctica

Home News The humongous chunk of ice calved from the western side of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Image credit: ESA/Earth Observation) An enormous iceberg, a little bigger than the state of Rhode Island, has broken off of Antarctica. The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles…

We all know the type. Certain people treat every conversation about bad or extreme weather like it's some kind of contest. Maybe their hometown is snowier than yours. Maybe they've lived through more blizzards. In any case, these charming folks can't resist a little meteorological one-upmanship. We all know the…

All products featured on Bon Appétit are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. I spent three days in Antarctica aboard the Belgica recently, well, in the only way that’s ever going to happen for me: with…

A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date. "This work synthesizes improvements over the last decade in climate models, ice sheet and…

At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are using fiber optic cable to detect the small earthquakes that occur in ice in Antarctica. The results could be used to better understand the movement and deformation of the ice under changing climate conditions, as well…

Home News The scientists controlled the uncrewed submarine from the RV Nathaniel B Palmer. (Image credit: Alex Mazur/British Antarctic Survey) A robotic submarine has returned from the dark underbelly of one of Antarctica's largest glaciers with chilling news — it could be melting faster than we previously thought. Thwaites Glacier,…

In a new paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, an international team of researchers presents the results from a long-term collection of extraterrestrial particles performed during the last two decades near the French-Italian CONCORDIA station in Antarctica. These SEM images show cosmic spherules and unmelted micrometeorites…

Home News An image shows cracks on the surface of the Larsen b ice shelf, which covers waters off the shore of the Antarctic peninsula. (Image credit: Shutterstock) A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves could collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2…

Ran, the unscrewed submarine that the scientists used, heading down into the depths under the Thwaites GlacierPhoto: Filip Stedt (Getty Images)Glaciers all over Antarctica are in trouble as ice there rapidly melts. There’s no Antarctic glacier whose fate is more consequential for our future than the Thwaites Glacier, and new research…

(Below you will find a large number of spoilers for “Godzilla vs Kong”) We don’t get a lot of “versus” movies all that often — the last big one was “Batman v Superman” back in 2016 — but these sorts of title showdowns have been a hallmark of the “Godzilla”…