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SpaceX launched its first Starlink satellite in 2019 with a vision of blanketing the globe in high-speed internet, and it has this week ticked off an important milestone in this grand plan. Researchers at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica are now tappi… Continue reading SpaceX’s Starlink internet reaches Antarctica, touching all 7 continents
Scientists have deployed an advanced robotic submarine to gain a new perspective on the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, with the groundbreaking seafloor imagery highlighting its precarious state in concerning new detail. The research reveals the g… Continue reading Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier “hanging on by its fingernails”
Scientists have deployed an advanced robotic submarine to gain a new perspective on the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, with the groundbreaking seafloor imagery highlighting its precarious state in concerning new detail. The research reveals the g… Continue reading Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier “hanging on by its fingernails”
To learn about the future of Earth’s climate we can look to the past, and one of the best ways to do that is with samples drilled from deep ice cores. Now, scientists have dated what may be the world’s oldest ice core, with some sections potentially preserving samples as old as 5 million years.
Category: Environment, Science
Tags: Ice, Antarctic, Climate, Climate Crisis, World’s Oldest, Environment
Continue reading World’s oldest ice core could stretch back 5 million years
Researchers stationed in Antarctica have been left mesmerized by the skies brought on by the aftereffects of a volcanic eruption. The light-scattering impacts of the lingering aerosols have created otherworldly sights at the end of the Earth, captured … Continue reading Volcanic afterglow bathes Antarctica in mesmerizing color and light
An international team of scientists and cartographers has released the most detailed map ever of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica. It covers 48 million km² (19 million miles²) and includes the deepest spot yet found in the regi… Continue reading New map reveals deepest spot in Southern Ocean around Antarctica
The ongoing discovery of microplastics in remote, seemingly pristine corners of the world continues to add important detail to a troubling picture of widespread pollution, and the latest finding takes the threat into new terrain. In freshly fallen snow… Continue reading First microplastics discovered in freshly fallen Antarctic snow
In the same week that record-setting temperatures were logged in East Antarctica, satellite images have revealed the complete collapse of its Conger Ice shelf, a first for the region. The ice shelf isn’t all that big in the grand scheme of things, but … Continue reading East Antarctic heatwave coincides with unpredicted ice shelf collapse
Scientists have long warned that with the climate continuing to change we can expect extreme weather events to increase in frequency, and freak heatwaves hitting either end of the planet this week serve as a pertinent example. Temperatures have been re… Continue reading Record-setting heatwaves strike the Arctic and Antarctic
The wreck of one of the most famous exploration ships in history has been located. Using a robotic submersible, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust has found Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, which was crushed in the Antarctic pack ice in 1915.Conti… Continue reading Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance found after 107 years under the ice