Antarctica

Black carbon, the object of this study, is an important contributor to the global anthropogenic radiative forcing. Credit: Luciano Marquetto Black carbon (BC) measurements in Antarctica are still scarce, but necessary to understand the particle's effect in our climate, says Luciano Marquetto, a Ph.D. student from the Polar and Climatic…

Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down Space 8 April 2020 By Jon Cartwright Graham CarterIN THE Antarctic, things happen at a glacial pace. Just ask Peter Gorham. For a month at a time, he and his…

Although a hole in the ozone layer might sound like a decidedly retro environmental issue, it’s still a problem today. Most eyes are fixed on the skies over Antarctica, but now scientists have spotted the biggest ozone layer hole in at least 25 years forming over the Arctic.The ozone layer…

April 6, 2020 AT 12:00 am It is far from what you could imagine.via MOTHERBOARDThe story of this ancient Antarctic rainforest is written in sediment buried 25 meters under the seafloor off Pine Island Glacier, according to a study published on Wednesday in Nature. The fossils preserved in an ultra-rare…

Main Blog > Scientists Have Unearthed Traces of an Ancient Rainforest In... Antarctica In 2017, researchers aboard the RV Polarstern drilled through and pulled up sediment from the ocean off the coast of Antarctica. When they examined the core, they were surprise to find a layer of a very different…

Science & Tech Findings Show Antarctica Was Rainforest 90 Million Years Ago Researchers who undertook an expedition to drill into the sea floor near the South Pole have found clear evidence of the existence of an ancient rainforest in the area. An ancient rainforest that covered much of Antarctica during…

Flake of clear yellow amber from Anglesea, Victoria containing a new, beautifully preserved biting midge ca. 41 million years old. Credit: Enrique Peñalver. The oldest known animals and plants preserved in amber from Southern Gondwana are reported in Scientific Reports this week. Gondwana, the supercontinent made up of South America,…

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It’s hard to imagine Antarctica as anything other than a freezing lifeless landscape, but that wasn’t always the case. Now, an international team has recovered a 90-million-year old soil sample that paints the most detailed picture of ancient Antarctica ever found, revealing a swampy rainforest and balmy temperatures.According to the…

Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. A team from the UK and Germany discovered forest soil from the Cretaceous period within 900 km of the South Pole. Their analysis of the preserved roots,…