Credit: ESA/IPEV/PNRA-N.Smith Applications are now open for the role of ESA-sponsored research medical doctor at Concordia research station in Antarctica for the 2023 winter over…
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The 2021 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum area on October 7 and ranks 13th-largest since 1979, scientists from NASA and NOAA reported on October…
This 2016 photo shows a rift that, within a few months, widened even farther and and released a Delaware-size iceberg from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice…
Ice melange, a combination of ice shelf fragments, windblown snow and frozen seawater, can act as a glue to fuse large rifts in floating ice…
Researchers insert a vacuum line down a borehole in Megadunes, Antarctica, to pump air out of the snow pack. Researchers at UCI analyzed the “firn”…
Close up image of an esker (a sedimentary cast of a meltwater channel formed beneath an ice sheet), discovered within a tunnel valley using the…
A 170 m record of marine sediment cores extracted from Adélie Land in Antarctica by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Programme is yielding new insights into…
The Jakobshavn Glacier, Greenland. Credit: Thomas Overly A new study predicts that any sea level rise in the world’s most southern continent will be countered…
A gravid female krill, meaning she is carrying thousands of eggs and ready to spawn. Credit: Langdon Quetin Climate conditions play a significant role in…
Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge Researchers map the geothermal heat flow in West Antarctica; a new potential weak spot in the ice sheet’s stability is…
A new study of shorelines in the Bahamas may change estimates of past sea levels. Here, some of the authors survey coastal rocks on the…
Lead author Anna Ruth Halberstadt in Antarctica. Credit: Anna Ruth Halberstadt New research from University of Massachusetts Amherst gives clearer picture of mid-Miocene Antarctic ice…
A new study from researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) on how the world’s largest ice sheet developed also provides vital clues about climate…
Researchers have analyzed more than 25 years of Antarctic data, finding that concentrations of ozone near the ground arose from both natural and human-related sources.…
Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba. Credit: Uwe Kils / Wikipedia In the heart of their Antarctic habitat, krill populations are projected to decline about 30% this…
Pine Island Glacier ends in an ice shelf that floats in the Amundsen Sea. These crevasses are near the grounding line, where the glacier makes…
Ice core researcher Don Voigt examines an ice core at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) project. Credit: Photograph by Gifford Wong A…
Iceberg A-76, measures around 4320 sq km in size (170 km in length and 25 km wide) – currently making it the largest berg in…
Today, Antarctic winds usually blow from the continent out to the sea. Credit: Svein Østerhu The Antarctic ice sheet was even more unstable in the…
If Paris Agreement targets are not met, the collapse of melting Antarctic ice shelves — like the Wilkins Ice Shelf in 2009 — could cause…