The ‘doomsday’ glacier’s giant ice shelf is about to break away
The Araon, a South Korean ice-breaker vessel, navigates a bed of sea ice near the Thwaites glacier in…
Scientists Find Evidence Earth Is Drifting Through the Ashes of an Exploded Star
Path of the solar system through the Local Interstellar Cloud. The cloud’s profile is preserved as an interstellar…
Hidden Warm Water Beneath Antarctica Could Rapidly Raise Global Sea Levels
Scientists have uncovered a hidden process beneath Antarctica that could make future sea level rise much worse than…
Earth Is Zipping Through a Giant Interstellar Cloud. Here’s How We Know
Roughly within the last 20 million years, some stars in our neighborhood exploded in fiery supernovas, ejecting massive…
Emperor penguins in focus as Antarctica talks start in Japan
Greater protections for endangered emperor penguins and how to manage growing tourism are topping the agenda at talks…
A ‘triple whammy’ of chaos has triggered a downward spiral in Antarctica, scientists discover
For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the…
Deep Below Antarctica, Mysterious Radio Signals From the Icy Depths Point to Evidence of a Rare Phenomenon
Scientists have finally obtained evidence of a rare cosmic phenomenon first predicted decades ago using a novel detector…
Why is Antarctica’s mass increasing?
Applications 23/04/2026 1940 views 32 likes The Antarctic Ice Sheet has been growing since 2020 – and scientists…
Drowned chicks and food scarcity: Emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal now endangered
The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal have been reclassified as ‘Endangered’ on the International Union for Conservation…
Ex-Wales flanker Richard Parks on ‘dark thoughts’ and going Pole to Pole with Will Smith
Told by a surgeon at the age of 31 that chronic damage to his right shoulder meant he…
Scientists Solve Origin of a Massive Ocean Current Carrying a Hundred Times More Water Than All the World’s Rivers Combined
Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Earth’s mightiest river has no banks. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the…
Photographer Captures First-Ever Images of Adorable Ross Seal Swimming in Antarctica
The first-ever photo of a Ross seal swimming underwater. | Photo by Justin Hofman A photographer has captured…