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The Sun is capable of some worryingly powerful outbursts. In ice cores from both ends of the planet, scientists have discovered evidence of an extreme solar storm that struck Earth around 9,200 years ago, and strangely, it seemed to have occurred durin… Continue reading Ancient ice reveals powerful solar storm during Sun’s “quiet” phase
The four-year saga of iceberg A-68 may be over, but its environmental impacts are still being assessed. A new study has calculated that the largest chunk, A-68A, released billions of tonnes of freshwater into the sea right near a marine nature reserve,… Continue reading Giant A-68 iceberg dumped 152 billion tonnes of freshwater into the sea
German scientists have announced the discovery of what is claimed to be the world’s largest fish breeding area known to date. Described as a globally unique ecosystem, it consists of tens of millions of icefish nests on the Antarctic sea floor.
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Members of a student team from the Technology University of Eindhoven are about to embark on a fact-finding mission to the South Pole that will inform the creation of an autonomous solar-powered Antarctica research rover.Continue ReadingCategory: Envir… Continue reading Student team building autonomous solar-powered rover for Antarctic research
A rarely seen total eclipse of the Sun in Antarctica on December 4 is drawing the attention of an international partnership of scientists who hope to learn more about the effects of such eclipses on space weather. The eclipse begins at 0700 GMT and can… Continue reading Rare Antarctic total solar eclipse to shed light on space weather
To learn more about the Earth’s climate and environmental history, a research team has begun an €11-million (US$12.9-million) project with the hopes of collecting the oldest continuous ice core in Antarctica, providing a record of the climate spanning … Continue reading Campaign to drill for the oldest continuous Antarctic ice core begins
If you were planning to travel hundreds of miles across Antarctic snow and ice, you’d probably be looking to captain something like an e-treaded polar snow ferry or concept-grade propeller cruiser, maybe even a specially prepared tricycle. What you wou… Continue reading Frontier-smashing Porsche 356 snow-drifter to attempt Antarctic record
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has confirmed the highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica. On February 6, 2020 at Argentina’s Esperanza Base, located at Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula, a maximum temperature of 18.3 °C (69.9 °F)… Continue reading Record high temperature for Antarctica confirmed by WMO
With a princely heritage and sub-zero ambitions, the all-electric Venturi Antarctica has been slowly evolving for more than a decade, preparing to tackle the extreme weather and terrain of the Antarctic continent. The snow-and-ice-hungry all-terrain mi… Continue reading Venturi’s cutting-edge electric polar explorer readies for Antarctica
An Antarctic lake holding twice the volume of water as San Diego Bay in California has vanished. An international team of scientists used satellite imagery to show that on the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, a lake containing an estimated 600 to 75… Continue reading Antarctic lake disappears after ice shelf fractures