Researchers say these harsh conditions could repeat in coming years if sea ice fails to recover. Shifts in Antarctic sea ice do not only matter for penguins and seals. The Southern Ocean is a key ...
Ever since the time of the ancient Greeks over 2,000 years ago, human beings have known the Earth is a globe. Despite this, some people are still convinced that we live on a giant floating disc ...
What do you hear when you think of the Arctic and Antarctic? "Singing" ice, a seal that sounds like it is in space, and a seismic airgun thundering like a bomb are some of the noises released by ...
A23a broke off from the Filchner–Ronne Ice Shelf near the Antarctic Peninsula in 1986 but became grounded in the Weddel Sea shortly afterward, where it would stay for over three decades.
In a paper for Nature Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) write that while other Antarctic lakes have received plenty of study ...
Today, Port Foster is home to two permanent research stations run by Argentina and Spain, according to the British Antarctic Survey ... alongside several species of seals and seabirds, according ...
Iceberg A23a weighs nearly 1 trillion tons and is twice the size of Greater London, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). A23a calved from the Antarctica's Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986.
The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again after decades of being grounded on the seafloor and more recently spinning on the spot, according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
We identified a leopard seal tooth from this LBCS deposit ... the conditions may have been suitable for these Antarctic predators to extend their range northward. The increased pack ice resulting ...
People with missing teeth may be able to grow new ones, say Japanese dentists testing a pioneering drug they hope will offer an alternative to dentures and implants. Unlike reptiles and fish ...
The video then pivots to a person saying Antarctic temperatures haven't risen because CO2 only constitutes 400 parts per million (ppm) of Earth's atmosphere and the human contribution to that is ...