What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...
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In a new study soon to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, I present evidence for hundreds of these quakes in ...
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A small, autonomous robot disappeared beneath the Antarctic ice for eight months and then reappeared with measurements from a ...
The Doomsday Glacier is at the center of a striking new discovery hidden deep under Antarctica’s frozen edge. For the first ...
Antarctica is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet, putting its vast ice sheets, surrounding oceans, and ...
A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...
A research expedition in the Southern Ocean has mapped a string of seamounts that help to shape the Antarctic Circumpolar Current — an ocean current that flows clockwise around Antarctica. When you ...