Even Antarctica Isn’t Safe: Microplastics Found Inside the Continent’s Only Insect

Microplastics have entered Antarctica’s soil ecosystem, subtly affecting its only native insect and revealing how far human pollution now reaches. An international team of scientists led by ...

Q&A: Why flies matter, their vital role in ecosystems, and surprising diversity

Summer is the season for flies, which belong to an insect group that scientists call Diptera. Many fly species are more ...
IFLScience

The Largest Native Terrestrial Animal In Antarctica Is Both Smaller And Tougher Than You'd Expect

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
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The only bugs in Antarctica are already eating microplastics

Microplastics are, it seems, everywhere. They’ve been found at the top of the highest mountains, and at the bottom of the sea; they’re inside our bodies, in the soil under our feet, and they rain down ...
Yahoo

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...
The Conversation

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Christine Siddoway received funding from the U.S. Science Support Program for IODP, and the National Science Foundation (grants 1939146 and 1917176, OPP Antarctic Earth Sciences) to support this ...
Women's Health

Midge Purce Just Keeps Winning

GOTHAM FC FORWARD Margaret “Midge” Purce—the two-time National Women’s Soccer League champion, entrepreneur, and activist—has the same 24 hours in a day as everyone else. She swears. “I scroll a lot ...
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Antarctica’s Native Insect Faces Extinction Threat: Microplastics Challenge Survival of Continent’s Last Endemic Species

Scientists have discovered that the Antarctic midge, Antarctica's only native insect, is ingesting microplastics, highlighting the pervasive reach of pollution even into the planet's most remote ...
Futurism

This Peek Under an Antarctic Base Is Absolutely Wild

It’s been over two weeks since the Sun has set on Germany’s Neumayer III base in the Antarctic, due to the Earth’s axial tilt at the extreme locale. In that eerie landscape, the 16-year-old base has ...
Science Daily

A hidden Antarctic shift unleashed the carbon that warmed the world

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...
EurekAlert!

Expansion of Antarctic bottom water contributed to the end of the last Ice Age

The Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica plays a vital role in the global climate. A new study shows that, at the end of the last ice age, Antarctic bottom water expanded significantly, releasing ...