Humpback whales may look like gentle giants, but each year they undertake nature's most extreme crash diet, shedding around ...

Beneath miles of ice lies an ancient landscape untouched for 40 million years. If it ever thaws, what secrets—and resources—might it reveal?

Would you travel four days to go to Antarctica? No? I did. Two days to get there and two to get back, but in between were four days of the trip of a lifetime.

Antarctica's waters are getting saltier and driving a collapse in its sea ice — and scientists aren't sure why.Antarctic sea ice has been declining since 2015, defying model predictions to hit a ...

The ritual is most prominent among Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua), and chinstrap penguins (Pygoscelis antarcticus). These species, which tend to nest in ...

Using this improved method, we obtained the volume changes of the CookE2 subglacial lake in East Antarctica from March 2019 to March 2023. The results showed that Lake CookE2 was continuously ...

Institution search supports local language names. , Home Articles Sedimentary DNA insights into Holocene Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) populations and ecology in the Ross Sea, Antarctica ...

Antarctic blue ice plays a crucial role in surface energy balance and paleoclimate research. A high-accuracy and comprehensive dataset of blue ice areas (BIAs) is essential for understanding climate ...

"For Unknown Reasons": Mystery Of The Oldest Human Remains Ever Found In Antarctica "Whatever the chain of events, only those remains here mentioned have been found up to this day," Daniel Torres ...

A 19-year-old pilot from the United States has been detained on an Antarctic island and charged by Chilean authorities, who say his flight to the frozen continent was unauthorized.

Tracking the amount of Antarctic research being done tells us whether nations as a whole are investing enough in understanding the region and its global impact.