Antarctica

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new international study led by Monash University climate scientists has revealed that ice loss in Antarctica persisted for many centuries after it was initiated and is expected to continue. "Our study implies that ice loss unfolding in Antarctica today is likely to continue unbated for…

A blast of wintry weather brought snowfall and strong winds to Dunedin, New Zealand, causing the springtime temperatures to plummet well below the average. The nation’s weather bureau MetService issued a strong wind and heavy snow warning for the Dunedin area, as well as South Island’s southern edge. Conditions were…

The Antarctica’s ozone hole has now reached its maximum size, according to an analysis of data collected by ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite. This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the largest in recent years. Image credit: ESA. Each year for the past few decades during the southern hemisphere…

IMAGE: The participants of Homeward Bound Cohort 4, the largest all-female expedition to Antarctica. view more  Credit: Will Rogan The Western Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming places on earth. It is also home to threatened humpback and minke whales, chinstrap, Adélie and gentoo penguin colonies, leopard seals, killer…

A dead Soviet satellite and a discarded Chinese rocket body seem to have avoided a collision on Thursday night, after satellite-tracking company LeoLabs calculated a 10% chance they would crash. It was impossible to intervene to prevent a collision, since both objects are dead and can't be maneuvered. Satellite collisions…

There’s something about stories. We cherish them. Teach them. Pass them down to the next generation. Stories create a sacred space that humans have always respected. And science fiction takes us one step further. It gives us the space to imagine what we could be, could do, could make. And…

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…