Antarctica

Home News The team at the Halley Research Station on the Brunt Ice Shelf captured an aerial photo of the North Rick crack in January 2021. (Image credit: Halley team/British Antarctic Survey) A giant iceberg, more than 20 times the size of Manhattan, just split off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice…

        | Updated: Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 16:58 Can a human survive in a colder environment say, at 1-degree centigrade without any gears or gizmos? Because, humans are warm-blooded animals, and our bodies, without proper protection, would lose all the energy while trying to maintain the ambient…

Researchers have discovered life forms that exist far underneath the ice shelves of the Antarctic. The findings have been published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science. Experiment in Antarctica hinting at parallel universe to be taken with a grain of salt: Experts “This discovery is one of those fortunate…

A camera being lowered down the borehole. (Dr Huw Griffiths/British Antarctic Survey) The waters below Antarctica are amongst the most inhospitable environments on our planet - or so we thought. It's pitch dark, and temperatures are subzero; yet, when scientists drilled through an Antarctic ice shelf far from light or…

Scientists made an unexpected discovery nearly half a mile beneath floating ice in Antarctica where they found what appears to be sea-sponges living in pitch-black seawater.Feb. 15, 2021 Read More

“Life finds a way,” the actor Jeff Goldblum playing scientist Ian Malcolm declared in the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park.” Animal life was not what scientists were expecting to find in the pitch-black seawater beneath almost half a mile of floating Antarctic ice, but it seems to have found a way…

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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