How do clouds form in Antarctica? The first flight-based aerosol measurements in 20 years

Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...

Worst-Case Climate Scenario Would Irreversibly Damage Antarctica, Scientists Warn

A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to ...

Record-breaking Antarctic drill reveals 23 million years of climate history

An international team featuring faculty at Binghamton University, State University of New York has drilled the longest ever sediment core from under an ice sheet, providing a record stretching back ...

An Antarctic Voyage

My colleague just spent two months on a research icebreaker. It changed his perspective on the world in ways he didn’t expect ...

Team of scientists retrieve massive Antarctic core sample to better understand warming planet

Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a ...
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See the moon's shadow darken Antarctica in epic satellite imagery of the Feb. 17 solar eclipse (video)

Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.

‘Irreversible on any human timescale’: Scientist reveals best and worst-case scenario for Antarctica

Despite being far away from civilisation, a melting Antarctic’s "disastrous" consequences will ripple across the world, ...

The part of Antarctica cruises that most travelers fear

If a cruise to Antarctica is on a traveler’s bucket list, they’ll likely need to cross the notoriously treacherous Drake ...
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East Antarctica is incredibly cold, but it has lost 1.85 trillion tons of ice in the past two decades due to global warming

You might be chilly right now, but that doesn't mean the world is getting colder.
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Retrieve the Deepest-Ever Rock Core From Beneath Antarctica’s Ice. It Holds Clues About the Earth’s Past—and Future

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...
Nature

Deepest-ever rock core extracted from under Antarctic ice sheet

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.

NYC colder than Antarctica after brutal chill blows in — here’s when it will finally warm up

New York City was colder than parts of Antarctica on Sunday after brutal, life-threatening winds swept across much of the ...