NASA finds huge Cavity in Antarctic Glacier
NASA finds huge cavity, almost the size of Manhattan, in Antarctic glacier, signaling rapid decay. A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall — growing...
View ArticleAntarctic Ice Mapped 10 times more accurately
This new NASA/UC Irvine map of ice velocity in Antarctica is 10 times more accurate than any previous map. The new map shows flows over 80% of the continent, where older maps showed about 20%. Colored...
View ArticleMelting icebergs slowing down Global Warming
New computer model simulations on melting icebergs, show effect of delay Southern Hemisphere future warming. New research has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of Global...
View ArticlePowerful surface Winds around Antarctica
These powerful gusts in this amazing video, described as the “mightiest current” in all the oceans, called the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC). The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is an ocean...
View ArticleHigh-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography
What lies beneath? BedMachine: Scientists create a high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topography. BedMachine is a new Antarctic bed topography product based on ice thickness data from 19...
View ArticleOzone Hole over Antarctic the is the largest in recent years
The ozone hole over the Antarctic that was first spotted in 1985, is one of the largest of recent years. The 2020 ozone hole grew rapidly from mid-August and peaked at around 24 million square...
View ArticleUnexpected Life half a Mile under Antarctic Ice Shelf
Scientists had accidentally come upon unexpected sea life half a mile under Antarctic ice shelf. The discovery was made accidentally, when geologists from the British Antarctic Survey were drilling a...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Antarctic Snow Cruiser?
The Antarctic Snow Cruiser was seventeen meters long, six meters wide, and weighing more than 34,000 kg, was unlike any exploration vehicle the world had ever seen....
View ArticleOzone Hole Continues Shrinking
The depleted area of the ozone layer over the Antarctic was slightly smaller than last year and generally continued the overall shrinking trend of recent years. The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached...
View ArticleHuge Iceberg breaks away from Antarctic Ice Shelf
A huge iceberg (1550 km²), almost the size of Greater London, breaks away from Antarctic ice shelf. The enormous iceberg 1550 sq km and around 150 m thick, around five times the size of Malta, has...
View ArticleAntarctic Sea Ice reaches Record Low
Sea ice around Antarctica in February 2023, reached the lowest extent ever observed since the start of the satellite record in 1979. But, the long-term trend for sea ice in southern polar waters is...
View ArticleWorrisome Low Antarctic Sea Ice
Worrisome low Antarctic sea ice in the depths of winter, than scientists expected for this time of year. Throughout July 2023, Antarctica’s sea ice averaged 13.5 million square kilometers (5.2 million...
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