Antarctica

If Antarctica had a voice, it would be Jim McClintock. The marine biologist has been narrating the story of the changing continent for the past 30 years. A professor at the University of Alabama, McClintock studies the tiny marine invertebrates and crustaceans in the oceans around Antarctica. This research has…

Home News A mummified Adélie penguin chick's head in Antarctica. (Image: © Steve Emslie) On a dry, windy cape in southern Antarctica, the ground is strewn with dead, mummified penguins. The rocks around them are littered with bones, pebbles and guano stains — the telltale marks of a freshly abandoned…

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Home News A simulation shows Antarctica, totally stripped of ice. (Image: © Garbe et al.) Antarctica contains more than half of the world's freshwater in its sprawling, frozen ice sheet, but humanity's decisions over the next century could send that water irreversibly into the sea.  If global warming is allowed…

Over the past few months, the phrase “social distancing” has entered our lexicon. Many of us have found ourselves separated from family and friends—or at least from our normal social lives. As humans grapple with pandemic-induced isolation, science is starting to offer insight into what may be happening in our brains…

A satellite image of Antarctica. Credit: USGS, via Wikipedia, Public Domain The warmer it gets, the faster Antarctica loses ice—and much of it will disappear forever. Consequences for the world's coastal cities and cultural heritage sites would be detrimental, from London to Mumbai, and from New York to Shanghai. That's…

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Website of the YearWorld14 Sep, 2020 11:09 PM3 minutes to readA humpback whale swims in the East Alligator River in the Kakadu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. Photo / APMarine authorities were puzzled on Monday over how to persuade at least one wayward humpback whale to leave a murky,…

Although whales are sometimes seen off the Northern Territory coast, it is believed to be the first time one has been spotted in thKakadu National Park A trio of humpback whales—usually bound for Antarctica this time of year—took a wrong turn, heading up a crocodile-infested north Australian river with scientists…

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At this very moment a vast world exists that’s free of the coronavirus, where people can mingle without masks and watch the pandemic unfold from thousands of miles away.That world is Antarctica, the only continent without COVID-19. Now, as nearly 1,000 scientists and others who wintered over…