For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...
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 ...
Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...
Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...
We’ve finally mapped all of Zealandia.
East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...
The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...
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 ...
Scientists discovered that atmospheric rivers reaching Antarctica arrive at an angle, improving snowfall tracking and sea ...
A fossil collected during a British Antarctic expedition in 1985 has finally been identified as the first dinosaur bone ever ...
The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet’s surface oceans ...