Researchers combing through soil samples in the South Pole found evidence that a vast rainforest stretched across West Antarctica nearly 90 million years ago, offering a first glimpse into prehistoric climate in Earth’s southernmost region.
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The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of Antarctica is reporting a temperature that, if confirmed, could be a record high for the icy continent.
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As tourism and scientific research grows in the Antarctic Peninsula, researchers revealed Monday a host of non-native species likely to invade the Antarctic Peninsula and create new problems amid an already fragile ecosystem.
Read moreSearchers combing Antarctic seas have recovered parts of a military transport plane and human remains belonging to some of the 38 people aboard who vanished en route to the frozen continent, Chilean officials said Thursday.
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Scientists have revealed the most detailed map of the land beneath the massive ice sheets of Antarctica – a map that offers significant insight into how the continent will respond to climate change and contribute to rising sea levels, according to a new scientific study.
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Chile’s air force lost radio contact with a transport plane carrying 38 people on a flight Monday evening to the country’s base in Antarctica, and authorities indicated several hours later that they were not optimistic about the aircraft’s fate.
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Antarctica, a vast territory belonging to no one nation, is a continent of extremes: the coldest place on Earth, the windiest, the driest, the most desolate and the most inhospitable. Now, it’s also a choice destination for tourists.
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The climate as we know it could drastically change should Earth’s average temperature and the temperatures of the polar regions rise by just 3.6 degrees – a threshold the planet may already be poised to cross in mere decades, according to a study published Wednesday in Science Advances.
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In the tiny part of Antarctica where the snow melts in springtime, mosses, lichens and grasses grow alongside flies, mites and colonies of micro-organisms that have fed and reproduced for millions of years.
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Ice shelves in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula have been thinning for hundreds of years, leaving them vulnerable to collapse in the face of climate change, according to research released Thursday.
Read moreA push by Australia and France to create a massive ocean sanctuary in east Antarctica is in doubt as nations meet in Hobart to discuss the plans, with China and Russia opposing.
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Upside-down “rivers” of warm ocean water are eroding the fractured edges of thick, floating Antarctic ice shelves from below, helping create conditions that lead to ice-shelf breakup and rising sea levels, according to a new study.
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Ice sheets, once thought to be frozen wastelands, play a much larger role in Earth’s carbon cycle than previously believed.
Read moreDespite sounding like a joke, the unmanned long-range submarine vehicle Boaty McBoatface is helping scientists conduct serious research on rising sea levels brought on by climate change.
Read morePenguin and seal poop may be the key to Antarctica’s biodiversity hot spots, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.
Read moreEmperor penguins have ditched a longtime love nest for three consecutive years as they search for stable ground while sea levels rise and fierce winds reshape the landscape of Antarctica, according to a study published Thursday.
Read moreWarm dry air currents passing over the Antarctic Peninsula’s central mountain range are causing an unusual spike in late-season surface melting on the continent’s fourth largest ice shelf, according to a new University of Maryland research study published Thursday in Geophysical Research Letters.
Read moreScientists believe a recent fossil finding proves early relatives of dinosaurs and crocodiles once roamed the verdant forests of what is now ice-covered Antarctica.
Read moreUsing bleeding edge satellite technology, scientists have gained insight into the status of one of Antarctica’s biggest glaciers – and the results aren’t pretty.
Read moreUsing workplace safety parameters to marine Antarctic animals, scientists say they can now predict climate change winners and losers in the Southern Ocean.
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