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Antarctica
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Antarctica is in crisis and we are scrambling to understand its future
Drilling for ice cores helps reveal the health of the Antarctic Nerilie Abram If all our fear and…
December 2, 2024
AI can use tourist photos to help track Antarctica’s penguins
Adélie penguins in Antarctica Prof. Heather Lynch Artificial intelligence can help accurately map and track penguin colonies in…
October 30, 2024
Striking image shows well-preserved wreck of Shackleton’s doomed ship
James Blake/Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust Slowly cracking through the dense pack ice of Antarctica’s Weddell Sea is hefty,…
October 30, 2024
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests
Seawater is pumped onto the snow covering the sea ice in an effort to thicken the ice Real…
September 23, 2024
Antarctica’s ‘doomsday’ glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse
The melting of Thwaites glacier is expected to accelerate International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration A six-year investigation into the…
September 20, 2024
Another extreme low for Antarctic sea ice signals a permanent shift
Sea ice in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VWPics/Alamy For the second year in a row, Antarctic sea…
September 12, 2024
The Antarctic’s polar vortex could be about to split in two
A satellite view of Antarctica Science History Images / Alamy Antarctica’s polar vortex could be about to split…
August 9, 2024
Melting Antarctic ice could actually slow sea level rise
An ice shelf on the Weddell Sea in Antarctica Sergio Pitamitz/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Rising…
August 2, 2024
Warm water seeping under Antarctic ice sheets may accelerate melting
Aerial view of an ice sheet in Antarctica David Vaughan/BAS Antarctica’s melting ice sheets may retreat faster as…
June 25, 2024
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged
On April 12, 2019, Boston University finally fired David Marchant for sexually harassing Willenbring. (The university said it…
April 4, 2024