Antarctica

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…

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,…