Antarctica News
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A giant iceberg, more than 20 times the size of Manhattan, split off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf on Friday, almost a decade after scientists with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) first detected growth of vast cracks in the ice.
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By AFP
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Even if humanity stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, Earth will warm for centuries to come and oceans will rise by metres, according to a controversial modelling study published Thursday.
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By AFP
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The world's biggest iceberg is on a collision course with a remote South Atlantic island that is home to thousands of penguins and seals, and could impede their ability to gather food, scientists told AFP Wednesday.
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New climatology evidence presents some concerning news about the South Pole. Researchers have discovered that the South Pole is warming at a rate three times above the global average. This has occurred across the past 30 years.
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By AFP
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New Zealand said Tuesday it will reduce its scientific projects in Antarctica to keep the virtually uninhabited continent free from COVID-19.
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The South Pole is surrounded by a harsh, frozen landscape of year-round ice and snow — but it hasn't always been this way. Imagine Antarctica as being home to an ancient, swampy rainforest full of diverse animal and plant life.
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By AFP
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An American requiring emergency medical treatment has been flown from Antarctica to New Zealand in a mercy dash in "challenging" winter conditions, the Australian Antarctic Division said Saturday.
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By AFP
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Greenland and Antarctica are shedding six times more ice than during the 1990s, driving sea level rise that could see annual flooding by 2100 in regions home today to some 400 million people, scientists have warned.
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A few weeks ago, scientists at Ukraine's Vernadsky Research Base in Antarctica awoke to find their usually pristine white surroundings drenched in a shocking blood-red.
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By AFP
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Scientists in Antarctica have recorded a new record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius (69.35 Fahrenheit), breaking the barrier of 20 degrees for the first time on the continent, a researcher said Thursday.
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The temperature in Antarctica reached a record-breaking 18.3 degrees Celsius (65 Fahrenheit) at one site on Thursday, almost a full degree above the previous high set five years ago.
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Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels.
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Ice loss from Pine Island Glacier has contributed more to sea-level rise over the past four decades than any other glacier in Antarctica. Current models indicate that this will continue in the future but at conflicting rates.
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A new NASA map - called BedMachine Antarctica - of the mountains, valleys, and canyons hidden under Antarctica's ice has revealed the deepest land on Earth and will help forecast future ice loss.
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By AFP
The swimsuit-clad tourists leap into the icy water, gasping at the shock, and startling a gaggle of penguins.They are spectators at the end of the world, luxury visitors experiencing a vulnerable ecosystem close-up.
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By AFP
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A push by Australia and France to create a massive ocean sanctuary in east Antarctica is in doubt as nations meet in Hobart to discuss the plans, with China and Russia opposing.
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By AFP
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A more than 600-square-mile iceberg broke off Antarctica in recent days, but the event is part of a normal cycle and is not related to climate change, scientists say.
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By AFP
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A rare phenomenon causing "the strongest Antarctic warming on record" is set to deliver more pain to dought-stricken Australia, scientists said Friday.
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A NASA-funded study has found that Antarctica faces a tipping point where glacial melting will accelerate and become irreversible even if global heating eases.
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By AFP
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For more than half a century, biologists studying Antarctica focused their research on understanding how organisms cope with the continent's severe drought and the coldest conditions on the planet.
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Scientists have wondered for decades why marine animals that live in the polar oceans and the deep sea can reach giant sizes there, but nowhere else. Researchers from the Universities of Hawaii and Montana decided to find out.
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By AFP
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Billions of tonnes of meltwater flowing into the world's oceans from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could boost extreme weather and destabilise regional climate within a matter of decades, researchers said Wednesday.
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A massive cavity that is two-thirds the size of Manhattan and nearly the height of the Chrysler Building is growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica - a discovery that NASA scientists called “disturbing.”
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Scientists in Antarctica have found preserved carcasses of tiny animals in Subglacial Lake Mercer, buried under more than 3,500 feet of ice.
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By AFP
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An American adventurer has become the first person to complete a solo trek across Antarctica without assistance of any kind.
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By AFP
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A plan to create the world's largest marine sanctuary in Antarctic waters was shot down when a key conservation summit failed to reach a consensus, with environmentalists on Saturday decrying a lack of scientific foresight.
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By AFP
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Moderate global temperature rises of just two degrees Celsius could still be enough to melt parts of the largest ice sheet on Earth and raise sea levels by several metres, experts warned on Wednesday.
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By AFP
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Five major krill fishing firms Tuesday agreed to halt operations across huge swathes of the Antarctic to help protect wildlife in a move hailed as "bold and progressive" by conservationists.
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By AFP
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Scientists based in Antarctica welcomed the winter solstice by plunging into icy waters Thursday as part of a "mad tradition" heralding the return of brighter days after weeks of darkness.In temperatures of -22 degrees Celsius (-7.
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The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.
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Antarctica Image
This topography map was created by the British Antarctic Survey and incorporates millions of new measurements, including substantial data sets from NASA's ICESat satellite and Operation IceBridge NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The southernmost known moss bank in the world! At Lazarev Bay, Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula. University of Exeter
Scattered ice floes are seen from the bridge of the USCGC Healy on August 20, 2012 northwest of Barrow, Alaska. Arctic sea ice fell to its lowest daily extent in the satellite record on Sunday, August 26, 2012, a record since surpassed. NSIDC/US Coastguard
A small sastrugi on the surface of the Antarctic Plateau, with SnoCat vehicle in the distance. Stephen Bannister
On the left is the Antarctic hairgrass and on the right is a plant species from the order Caryophyllales University of Wisconsin
FS Polarstern in front of a mighty iceberg in Inner Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica. JP Klages, Alfred Wegener Institute
Large sea spider (Collossendeidae) seen at 1,495 meters in Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument in July 2017. NOAA Ocean Exploration & Research, Sea Spider
Remnants of the forest have been fossilized. Erik Gulbranson, UWM
A satellite photo of Antarctica, a place of scientific interest and exploratory endeavor. Dave Pape
Halley Research station in Antarctica experiences 24 hour darkness during the austral winter. British Antarctic Survey
The notebook of Zoologist, George Murray Levick, which Lizzie Meek and her team rescued from the ice. Courtesy of Antarctic Heritage Trust New Zealand
The only penguin species that breeds during the Antarctic winter, emperor penguins trek 50–120 km (31–75 mi) over the ice to breeding colonies which may include thousands of individuals. Michael Van Woert, NOAA NESDIS, ORA
Antarctica's major ice shelf areas. Ted Scambos, National Snow and Ice Data Center
This acrylic painting shows the former environmental conditions that could be reconstructed for the area of the drilling. The picture was made on the basis of the diverse scientific knowledge that could be obtained from the PS104_20-2 sediment core. Graphic: Alfred Wegener Institute, James McKay
A break in the Ross ice shelf. Columbia University
The nature of Antarctica is in its diversity Georges Nijs from Diepenbeek, Belgium
An Adélie penguin in Antarctica. Photo by OCEANITES/RON NAVEEN Oceanites
These are some of the cellulose nitrate negatives found bundled together at Cape Evans in "Scott's Hut." courtesy of the Antarctic Heritage Trust
Larsen B ice shelf on January 31, 2002. By April 13, 2002, the ice shelf had collapsed. NASA Earth Observatory
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