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Scientists Uncover “Grand Canyon” in Antarctica: Scientific American
Scientists Uncover “Grand Canyon” in Antarctica The deep rift valley beneath the ice may help speed glacial meltdown By Lauren Morello and ClimateWire | July 26, 2012 A massive rift valley that lies...
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Why Antarctic Sea Ice Cover Has Increased Under the Effects of Climate Change
The first direct evidence that marked changes to Antarctic sea ice drift have occurred over the last 20 years, in response to changing winds, is published this week in the journal Nature Geoscience....
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Antarctica’s first whale skeleton found with nine new deep-sea species
Marine biologists have, for the first time, found a whale skeleton on the ocean floor near Antarctica, giving new insights into life in the sea depths. The discovery was made almost a mile below the...
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Final frontiers: the Arctic
With the global population now well over seven billion there are few remaining parts of the world relatively untouched by human activity. We assess the current state and future prospects of five final...
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The Antarctic’s puzzling ice sheet
Recently NASA reported that this year’s maximum wintertime extent of Antarctic sea ice was the largest on record, even greater than the previous year’s record. This is understandably at odds with the...
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IceCube awarded 2013 Breakthrough of the Year
The IceCube project has been awarded the 2013 Breakthrough of the Year by the British magazine Physics World. The Antarctic observatory has been selected for making the first observation of cosmic...
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Ice-loss moves the Earth 250 miles beneath our feet
At the surface, Antarctica is a motionless and frozen landscape. Yet hundreds of miles down the Earth is moving at a rapid rate, new research has shown. The study, led by Newcastle University, UK, and...
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