For about six to 12 hours as the sun dips low on the horizon in the late spring and early summer, an Antarctic ice…
In the 18th-century English ballad The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a storm drives a sailor’s ship toward the South…
Antarctica is huge, stretching nearly 3,500 miles at its widest extent. Despite its enormous size, however, the frozen…
An Antarctic ice shelf that’s been cracking up for years is now very close to giving birth to an iceberg roughly 30…
Last year, a team of scientists embarked on a mission to explore the seafloor exposed when a Delaware-sized iceberg…
Antarctica is the font of bad news that just keeps on giving. Thwaites Glacier, among the most threatened hunks of ice…
The fossilized remains of an early reptile dating back some 250 million years have been uncovered in the unlikeliest of…
Using a hot-water drill, British scientists have dug a 7,060-foot borehole through the Antarctic ice sheet. The…
Scientists have found the bodies of tardigrades, algae, diatoms, and small crustaceans in a body of water buried…
When scientists talk about Antarctic melting, they’re usually referring to West Antarctica, where giant coastal…
What’s happening to Arctic sea ice is pretty straightforward: Earth is getting warmer, and everything’s melting. But on…
While you were baking cookies and binging Netflix shows over Christmas, a team of about 50 scientists, drillers, and…
New evidence confirms that an influx of cosmic rays struck the entire planet around 994 CE—and it might solve the…
Some extra snowfall in Antarctica has helped the world avoid nearly a half inch of sea level rise this last century,…
Scientists often detect weird sounds in Antarctica, from the groans of melting glaciers to seismic waves rippling…
The holidays are nigh, and this year’s naughty list is long indeed—and from revelations of reckless privacy violations…
The solar panels stood tall against the icy expanse as the four-person team approached on snowmobile. GZ20 hadn’t seen…
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…
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