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What’s buried beneath Antarctica's ice? A new map unveils the continent's hidden landscape like never before seen
Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other worlds than what lies beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet, which ...
More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, ...
The flow of ice at Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica has sped up dramatically due to the disintegration of the ice shelf in front of it, and this could lead to faster sea level rise ...
If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...
Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...
One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.
Scientists on the Thwaites Glacier attempted to install equipment beneath the ice to better understand how it is melting. Our ...
The fastest way into the gaps between gigantic blocks of a broken-up glacier is by lowering instruments from above, through ...
Louis Etienne and his crew of eight scientists this week began an expedition to the remote waters of Antarctica, where they hope to gather a wealth of data to demonstrate the benefits of creating ...
An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is ...
The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith Island and Melchior Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula on January 23, 1966. Since ...
Antarctica is arguably the most extraordinary place a cruise ship will take you. You’ll spend your days cruising in glassy ...
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