Antarctica Undergoes ‘Greenlandification’ As Ice Melt Accelerates – State of the Planet
An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica’s ice masses have begun to experience a…
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The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved
There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg…
Our Best- and Worst-Case Scenarios for a Warming Antarctica
When Peter Convey first set foot on Signy Island in the South Orkney archipelago in…
Earth’s Strongest Gravity Hole Sits Beneath Antarctica—And Now We Know How It Got There
Gravity feels solid. Dependable. The kind of thing you can count on wherever you plant…
Beneath the ice: Satellites help map Antarctica’s subglacial surface like never before
One of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system is closer to home than…
The duo kite-skiing 4000 kilometres across Antarctica for science
Matthieu Tordeur, Heïdi Sevestre and the bust of Vladimir Lenin at the southern pole of…
Violent ‘storms’ under Antarctica’s ice could be speeding its decline
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2…
Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ocean current
Melting ice in Antarctica could have an impact on ocean currentsJUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images…
Near-Earth asteroid zooms past Antarctica photo of the day for Oct. 8, 2025
On Oct. 1, 2025, the small asteroid known as 2025 TF whizzed past Earth at…
Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas
Melting ice sheets in Antarctica will raise sea levelsDurkTalsma/Getty Images Antarctica may have passed a…