Antarctica

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…

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…

A Google Earth user discovered what they believe to be a '400ft ice ship' lying in an iceberg about 100 miles from the coast of Antarctica. The huge ice structure was picked up on Google Earth south of New Zealand and has a striking resemblance to a cruise liner with a…

Satellite images have revealed that there are nearly 20% more emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica than previously thought. Scientists, at the British Antarctic Survey, have used satellite data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to track penguin guano, or penguin poo, to monitor the presence of thousands of penguins. The findings,…

Image caption Major science projects in the deep interior and other remote places will be postponed by a year The British Antarctic Survey is scaling back its research in the polar south because of coronavirus.Only essential teams will head back to the continent as it emerges from winter and virtually…