A research vessel in Antarctica on June 3, 2017, the first day researchers saw the sun rise above the horizon after weeks of polar darkness.…
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The shelf’s disintegration in March 2022 has reshaped a landscape where coastal glacial ice was once thought to be stable. It is relatively common for…
February 25, 2022 The long-term trend for sea ice in the south is flat, while the global trend points downward. In February 2022, sea ice…
Remnants of the Larsen-B ice shelf, filled in with seasonal ice in January 2016. Until January 2022, sea ice helped to buttress the nearby glaciers,…
March 6, 2022 After nearly pummeling the vulnerable Brunt Ice Shelf, a flock of Antarctic icebergs settles in for the austral winter. In summer 2019,…
Natural color – February 23, 2022. (Click image for wide view.) Enhanced natural color – February 23, 2022. An icebreaker cut through persistent sea ice…
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust is pleased to confirm that the Endurance22 Expedition has located the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship which has…
Twilight is a long affair at research station Concordia, situated just a few 1000 km from the South Pole. The Sun disappears completely behind the…
The Antarctic spiny plunderfish (Harpagifer antarcticus). Credit: Lloyd Peck, British Antarctic Survey Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of…
Due to a regular surface structure on the mussel “Adamussium colbecki” ice adheres to it only very weakly and can be easily washed away by…
Germany’s icebreaking research vessel Polarstern (operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research). Credit: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Thomas Ronge AWI experts…
Anna Ruth Halberstadt conducting field research in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Credit: Anna Ruth Halberstadt Discrepancy between terrestrial and marine data resolved; shows that ice…
A view of the Earth from space on September 21, 2005, with the full Antarctic region visible. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center AWI study provides…
A-68A’s position on December 17, 2020. Credit: British Antarctic Survey/ESA In July 2017, a giant iceberg, named A-68, snapped off Antarctica’s Larsen-C ice shelf and…
Credit: NSF Argonne physicists say cold, dry is perfect for examining the oldest light in the universe. When your workplace is the South Pole, things…
The A68A iceberg with some smaller parts of ice that have broken off around it (November 21, 2020). Credit: MODIS image from NASA Worldview Snapshots…
“Total Surprise” As Massive Icefish Breeding Colony With 60 Million Active Nests Found in Antarctica
Icefish in the Weddell Sea. Credit: PS118, AWI OFOBS team Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on January 13, 2022, have discovered a massive…
Nests of icefish. Credit: AWI OFOBS Team Researchers detect around 60 million nests of Antarctic icefish over a 240 square kilometers area in the Weddell…
Global port-to-port traffic network of all ships that visited Antarctica from 2014-2018. Credit: David Aldridge Marine life hitching a ride on ocean-crossing ships poses a…
Yuzhen Yan in Antarctica in December 2015. Credit: Yuzhen Yan Glacial erosion likely caused atmospheric oxygen levels to dip over past 800,000 years. An unknown…