Antarctica

The Japanese icebreaker ship Shirase near the tip of the Shirase Glacier during the 58th Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. Credit: Kazuya Ono Ice is melting at a surprisingly fast rate underneath Shirase Glacier Tongue in East Antarctica due to the continuing influx of warm seawater into the Lützow-Holm Bay. Hokkaido…

Antarctica’s Larsen B ice shelf—a large ledge of ice, jutting out from the edge of the continent into the ocean—captured international attention in 2002. Over the course of just a few weeks, the ice shelf splintered, broke into pieces and collapsed entirely into the sea. Nearly 20 years later, it’s…

IMAGE: Life restoration of Lystrosaurus in a state of torpor. view more  Credit: Crystal Shin Hibernation is a familiar feature on Earth today. Many animals -- especially those that live close to or within polar regions -- hibernate to get through the tough winter months when food is scarce, temperatures drop…

published : 26 Aug 2020 at 22:45 Melt water running into deep fissures caused by warming air is undermining the structural integrity of Antarctica's ice shelves. PARIS: More than half the ice shelves ringing Antarctica that prevent huge glaciers from sliding into the ocean and lifting sea levels are at…

Home News The Japanese research vessel Shirase sails through the ice near Shirase Glacier, in East Antarctica (Image: © Kazuya Ono) Researchers have discovered a deep underwater trough in Antarctica that could spell doom for one of the continent's vulnerable ice shelves.Located hundreds of feet below the Shirase Glacier in…

Love or hate Metallica; you’ve got to admire the boys ‘give a fuck’ attitude. Rarely a year goes by where these four men of the metalocalypse don’t go whole-hog for some mad new venture. Be it making ‘thriller concert films,’ partnering up with Lou Reed, or playing freaking Antarctica; these…

Lidar shooting into the Antarctic night sky, Arrival Heights Observatory. Credit: Danny Hampton, Ian Geraghty, Zimu Li A University of Colorado Boulder-led team is the first to observe new equatorial wind patterns in Antarctica, revealing new connections in global circulation. A CIRES-led team has uncovered a critical connection between winds…

IMAGE: A crabeater seal in Antarctica view more  Credit: Credit: Ursala Rack A New Zealand-led international study of the crabeater seal population in Antarctica aims to understand environmental impacts on one of the southern-most mammals in the world. With funding from The Pew Charitable Trusts, University of Canterbury (UC) scientists have…

Antarctic ice shelves have lost nearly 4 trillion metric tons of ice since the mid-1990s, scientists say. Ocean water is melting them from the bottom up, causing them to lose mass faster than they can refreeze. That's according to a new study analyzing satellite data from 1994 to 2018. The results were…

Using images from ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite, a team of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey has spotted 8 new colonies of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) and confirmed the discovery of three previously identified but never confirmed breeding sites. This discovery, described in a paper in the journal Remote Sensing…