Search crews are combing the Antarctic for a Chilean military transport plane carrying 38 people that vanished en route to a base on the frozen continent
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Satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been used as the basis for new insights on the deep structure of the continent Antarctica.
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The Antarctic is one of the parts of Earth that we know the least about. Due to the massive ice shield, the collection of geophysical information on site is extremely difficult and expensive. Satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) has...
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We're never gonna survive unless, we get a little crazy NASA’s science team has a new female recruit and she's probing the watery depths of the Antarctic in a quest to help climate eggheads understand our climate.…
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Nothing seems safe from plastic contamination. It is pulled from the nostrils of sea turtles, found in Antarctic waters and buried in the fossil record. But a new study by researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of...
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]]>(MedPage Today) -- Fourteen months on an Antarctic research expedition -- with almost complete darkness during winter, temperatures as low as -58 °F, and extremely limited social interactions -- led to brain changes in healthy young...
As ice retreats, carbon could be trapped on the seabed for centuries, so long as certain nations can put conservation above commercialization.
New research reveals how penguins have dealt with more than a century of human impacts in Antarctica and why some species are winners or losers in this rapidly changing ecosystem.
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Antarctica is the largest reservoir of ice on Earth -- but new research suggests it could be at greater risk of melting than previously thought.
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It may be remote and uninhabited but Antarctica is suffering from man's activities, says the director of the Chilean Antarctic Institute, Marcelo Leppe, in an interview with AFP.
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When Robert F. Scott’s Discovery expedition began exploring the Antarctic continent in 1901, they set out to geographically and scientifically characterize the regions touched by the Ross Sea. As the group of naval officers and...
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Scientists hope that one day the submersible will be sent to Jupiter’s moon Europa, which reportedly has more water than all of the Earth’s oceans and is considered one of the highest priority targets in the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Exploring a distant moon usually means trundling around its uniquely inhospitable surface, but on icy ocean moons like Saturn’s Enceladus, it might be better to come at things from the bottom up. This rover soon to be tested in Antarctica...
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New study shows how changes in Antarctic sea ice is driving one of the world's smallest seabirds to forage further for food.
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Back in February, the digital media feasted on the Brunt Ice Shelf, touting that a massive slab of ice — some two times the size of New York City — was supposedly poised to snap off into Antarctic waters.
An informative NASA press...
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Residents of the city of Renton were left in deep shock after they saw two lovely turtles with swastikas drawn on their shells earlier this week. The incident even prompted one resident to organise a rally against hate.
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Mostly illegible missive claims to come from tiny uninhabited island with its own TLD An Antarctic research station is asking for help after finding a message in a bottle with an indecipherable email address.…
From Nature An analysis of air up to 2 million years old, trapped in Antarctic ice, shows that a major shift in the periodicity of glacial cycles was probably not caused by a long-term decline in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide. Eric W. Wolff...
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A multinational effort to create giant marine sanctuaries around Antarctica to counter climate change and protect fragile ocean ecosystems has failed for an eighth straight year, officials said Saturday.
A new study published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience suggests that, in the past, increases in Antarctic sea ice in colder climates may have contributed to ice ages.