2.8 miles of ice. That’s all that is keeping a 6,000 square kilometer size chunk of ice attached to Antarctica.... Read More
Polar ice is melting. That much is for sure. How it’s melting is what scientists want to figure out. They... Read More
Studying in the Antarctic has always been incredibly difficult for researchers. Frigid temperatures, weather and just pure logistics cause immediate headaches... Read More
West Antarctica loses the ice equivalent of Mt. Everest every two years according to a new study. Scientists from the... Read More
Emperor penguins may dominate Antarctica now, but even they had trouble during the last ice age. A new study is... Read More
Fun fact: Antarctica is the world’s largest desert. And, a new find under the McMurdo Dry Valleys could have implications... Read More
Researchers from UC Santa Cruz lowered a probe more than a half mile below the ice into the sediments below... Read More
And it could be the world’s largest. A team of scientists, led by Durham University, spotted the massive canyon system... Read More
It measures 70 miles long, 300 feet wide and nearly a third of a mile deep. Last month, NASA’s IceBridge... Read More