Why Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Antarctica Froze Millions of Years Before the Arctic. We May Finally Know Why

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...
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Ancient Mantle Waves Inside Earth May Have Lifted Antarctica's Mountains Before It Froze Over

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

Antarctica froze 25 million years before the Arctic, and scientists now think the answer was hidden beneath the continent

For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...
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Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ could lose its ice shelf this year, scientists warn

Fractures racing across Antarctica’s Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf are severing its last structural anchor to a submarine ridge, ...

An 'unremarkable' fossil found in Antarctica 40 years ago is the continent's first dinosaur bone

More than 40 years after it was collected, an Antarctic fossil has been recognized as a far more consequential discovery than anyone first realized, according to Sci.News. The bone is now considered ...

Study suggests melting Antarctic ice hides vast precious metal deposits, including gold and silver

The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...
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Survival against all odds: Plane crash in Antarctica

When a plane crash left six men stranded in the icy wilderness of Antarctica, their survival instincts kicked in. With ...
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Why Antarctica Froze 25 Million Years Before the Arctic Even Though They’re Both at the Poles

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

Ozone depletion actually began decades before holes in the ozone layer were first discovered

The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

An Antarctic sea squirt could help treat melanoma

During an expedition to Antarctica, scientists discovered a species of sea squirt that may promise a new cancer treatment.