Buried beneath 4,000 feet of Antarctic ice lies Lake Mercer, a subglacial body of water that formed thousands of years…
Iceberg mania briefly overtook the internet last month when NASA captured a rectangular freakberg. But icebergs are…
Scientists have to use some roundabout methods to weigh the Earth and measure what’s inside it—typically, they’ve used…
While the internet was obsessing over that rectangular iceberg, some more disconcerting icy behavior went down on the…
Antarctica has been really been letting its hair down lately. First, there was news of a haunting hum coming from one…
The Antarctic desolation and cold could be too much for some people—even folks you would think are used to some cold…
New photos of a surprisingly rectangular iceberg are offering the full picture of this now-famous Antarctic…
Well here’s something you don’t see everyday: an iceberg so unbelievably geometric in shape you’d think it was…
It’s been a big week for the service journalism here at Gizmodo dot com. We published an exhaustive guide to the 100…
The Antarctic is no stranger to weird sounds, from ancient trapped air bubbles popping to entire ice sheets…
Everyday it feels like science fiction and reality slide ever closer together. In the latest edition of “could this…
We’ve seen a lot of good maps of Earth’s polar regions of late. A map that shows the thickness of the entire Antarctic…
Since it snapped off the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, the trillion-ton iceberg known as A68 has spent most of its…
East Antarctica has long been hailed as a bastion of continuity in the rapidly unraveling Antarctic. The West Antarctic…
The RSS Sir David Attenborough—the polar exploration vessel that, in April 2016, participants in an internet poll overwh…
It was a year ago at this time that Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf gave birth to Iceberg A-68, one of the largest…
As one might expect, the desolate and remote East Antarctic Plateau is home to Earth’s coldest temperatures. What is…
A team of scientists has learned that the ground beneath West Antarctica’s most vulnerable glaciers is weirdly bouncy.…
It’s the solstice, and what better way to celebrate than going to a party. Perhaps there’ll be a little wine, some…
Three trillion tons of ice is an near impossible thing to wrap your head around. Even the standard comparisons—it’s 1.2…
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