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The wreck of the ship used for Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final Antarctic expedition has been located by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) off the coast of Labrador. The Quest, aboard which Sir Ernest died in 1922, sank in May 1962.Continue R… Continue reading Famous explorer’s final ship found wrecked off Canada
Researchers are using machine learning to analyze satellite radar data to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica as a way to better understand their life cycle and environmental impact.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags… Continue reading AI helps scientists track icebergs by analyzing radar data
Researchers are using machine learning to analyze satellite radar data to detect icebergs in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica as a way to better understand their life cycle and environmental impact.Continue ReadingCategory: Environment, ScienceTags… Continue reading AI helps scientists track icebergs by analyzing radar data
A bright red waterfall isn’t something you’d expect to see on the icy landscape of Antarctica, but that’s exactly what’s pouring out from the foot of Taylor Glacier. A team of scientists now claims to have solved the long-standing mystery behind the cr… Continue reading Antarctica’s mysterious Blood Falls aren’t made by minerals after all
Racing to beat the arrival of the Antarctic winter, contractors have completed a major milestone in constructing a new two-story science and operations building at British Antarctic Survey’s (BAS) Rothera Research Station that is designed to withstand … Continue reading Construction of new Antarctic facility races against coming of winter
A new study by Stanford University suggests that an 80-mile-wide (130-km) stream of ice in the heart of Antarctica’s “doomsday glacier” may expand over the next 20 years, which would increase its ice loss and contribute to sea level rises.Continue Read… Continue reading Widening of “doomsday glacier’s” main ice stream would accelerate ice loss
Based on a 25-year record of the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, a team of scientists led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have shown that changes in snowfall over Antarctica can have significant short-term effects on global sea level rises.Continue … Continue reading Antarctic snowfalls found to affect short-term sea level rises
In development for more than a decade, the Monegasque high-performance electric vehicle constructor Venturi was finally set to work in Antarctica at the end of 2021. Now the first and only electric polar exploration vehicle has undergone key upgrades t… Continue reading Antarctica’s only electric exploration vehicle in the shop for key upgrades
Antarctica isn’t exactly the type of place you’d expect to be teeming with life, but a new study suggests the frigid environment at the end of the world may be a little more hospitable than it seems. Scientists studying sea ice in the region’s Southern… Continue reading Antarctica may be hiding thriving plankton blooms beneath its sea ice
Among the many mechanisms shaping the Antarctic ice sheet are the processes playing out in its lower layers, and a newly discovered sub-glacial river suggests it may drain away faster than we thought. Scientists say the 460-km-long (285-mile) river sho… Continue reading 460-km-long river discovered snaking though base of Antarctic ice sheet