New research reveals that changes following the recent and dramatic decline in Antarctic sea ice could help a low-nutritional species prosper, with major ramifications for food webs and biogeochemical ...
NASA satellites detected a phytoplankton bloom around Antarctic iceberg A-23A as it melted, showing how icebergs can fertilize the ocean.
Polar Latitudes Expeditions is launching new Fly & Cruise voyages to Antarctica starting in the 2027-28 season. The sailings ...
Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...
Researchers have confirmed a subglacial river system channeling water more than 1,500 feet beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, where episodic surges flush into the ocean cavity under the Ross Ice Shelf.
Antarctica has lost nearly 5,000 square miles of "grounded ice" in 30 years, as warming ocean waters drive retreat in vulnerable regions, a new study finds.
Bottom a) temperature (°C) and c) salinity (psu) from the observational climatological mean on the continental shelf over 1975–2012 based on ref. 72 and in the abyss over 1955–2017 based on the World ...
A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.
The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...
The necessity to protect the world’s last remaining continental wilderness from potential ecological collapse. Few of the earth’s remaining wilderness environments are more vulnerable or valuable than ...
This knocked me back. Mom was a woman, a wife, a mother, a teacher, a middle child, a Midwesterner by upbringing, the ...