UW–Madison researchers show a 40,000-year obliquity cycle in Antarctic ice growth altered Southern Ocean nutrients, boosting ...

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Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, ...

Learn how, after one of the world’s most sensitive neutrino detectors discovered mysterious radio pulses in Antarctica, ...

Travelers observing an emperor penguin in Antarctica. I've traveled the globe as a luxury travel advisor, but after spending 20 days in Antarctica, crossing glaciers and sleeping under the midnight ...

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Navigating monolithic icebergs, massive ocean waves and sub-zero snowstorms, CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator is a ...

Microbes living beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet may survive on methane generated by geothermal heat rising from deep below Earth’s surface. The discovery could have implications for assessing the ...

The first continent-wide mapping study of plant life across Antarctica reveals growth in previously uncharted areas and is set to inform conservation measures across the region. The satellite survey ...

BATON ROUGE – Antarctica is home to the largest body of ice on Earth. Prior to approximately 10 years ago, no one thought that life could exist beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which can be more than ...

I keep my Mont Helios jacket on the back of my seat at every meal because it is warm enough to wear outside over the top of ...

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating glaciers in January, a team of scientists working nearby quickly pivoted, steering their ship to explore the ...