Antarctica

Somewhat fresher chicken eggs than the ones discovered from the time of Roman Britain. Credit: Steve MirskyHere are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain.Hi, I’m Scientific American podcast editor Steve…

Main Blog > The Forgotten American Explorer Who Discovered Huge Parts of Antarctica We know that Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to reach the South Pole. We also know Robert Falcon Scott because he led the crew that all died trying to be the first. But there were other…

The hole in Earth's ozone layer above Antarctica is continuing its recovery, leading to changes in atmospheric circulation, a study published on Nature.com has revealed.Per New Scientist, Antara Banerjee and colleagues used data from satellite observations and climate simulations to model changing wind patterns that are related to the recovery…

A team of Norwegian scientists is warning that the North Atlantic Current is not as stable as we have long presumed. Their work, published in the academic journal Science, shows that the current has reversed itself repeatedly in the past and could again in the future if temperatures warm by…

Scientists have identified another Antarctic glacier that could be more vulnerable to climate change than previously suspected. Denman Glacier in East Antarctica has largely flown under the radar until now. Much of the focus at the South Pole has centered on rapidly melting glaciers in West Antarctica, where the rate…

(Bloomberg) — Diplomacy can fix large-scale harm done to the planet by industrial pollution. That’s the conclusion of new research published today in the journal Nature showing how skies above the Southern Hemisphere have recovered since a 1987 treaty banned chemicals that eat away at the atmosphere’s protective layer. The ozone layer sits…

The winners of a new wildlife photography competition have been announced, with a drone image of seals on an ice floe earning the top prize. Image copyright Nature TTL / Florian Ledoux French photographer Florian Ledoux took the winning photo, entitled Above the Crabeater Seals, in Antarctica."For me, it is…

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I’m a geophysicist, and the goal of my research is to understand how ice at the poles of our planet works — how ice sheets flow, melt, grow. To do that, I’m always working on different ways of looking at them.The instrument in this picture is called the Ice Pod,…

I’m a geophysicist, and the goal of my research is to understand how ice at the poles of our planet works — how ice sheets flow, melt, grow. To do that, I’m always working on different ways of looking at them.The instrument in this picture is called the Ice Pod,…