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What’s buried beneath Antarctica's ice? A new map unveils the continent's hidden landscape like never before seen
Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other worlds than what lies beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet, which ...
More than 50 skuas in Antarctica died from the high pathogenicity avian influenza virus H5N1 in the summers of 2023 and 2024, ...
Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...
If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...
Antarctica has surprised scientists with an unusual event: the Hektoria glacier, located on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, ...
The ‘Scenic Eclipse II’ was sailing through the Ross Sea in Antarctica on Jan. 17 when it got stuck in a thick sheet of ice and required assistance from the U.S. Coast Guard.
One of Earth’s most dangerous glaciers has claimed a victim: a suite of instruments that became trapped deep within the ice.
An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is ...
The U.S. conducted its first inspection of a Chinese Antarctic station in six years to verify it was being peacefully used.
Antarctica is arguably the most extraordinary place a cruise ship will take you. You’ll spend your days cruising in glassy ...
The first tourists stepped ashore at Smith Island and Melchior Islands on the Antarctic Peninsula on January 23, 1966. Since ...
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has launched a New Year’s push to find people to work at its research stations in ...
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