Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...
A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. At an extremely remote Antarctic outpost, scientists have unearthed a pristine ...
In 1739, long before anyone reached Antarctica, Philippe Buache published a map that appeared to show the continent without its ice. The map even split the landmass with a central sea, a feature some ...
If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...
ANTARCTICA, — Grab the warmest clothing you have and let's take a trip to the coldest place on earth: Antarctica. Located over 8,500 miles away from us here in Hampton Roads, Antarctica covers the ...
Antarctica was once a lush and thriving land, teeming with prehistoric life. It's hard to believe now, but tucked away, hidden underneath a layer of ice kilometers thick, that ancient landscape still ...
New research by scientists at UC Santa Barbara indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago. The research, which has ...
In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...
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Google Maps recently added a new round of panoramic Street View images from Antarctica including such points of interest as explorer Ernest Shackleton’s hut from the Nimrod expedition and the ...
More than a century after it sank off the coast of Antarctica, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance has been located, apparently intact and in good condition.The ship, which sank in ...
ST. PETERSBURG, 28 January (BelTA) - Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and Russian leader Vladimir Putin are attending a ceremony to launch a new wintering complex at the Vostok station in ...