The team may have also discovered several new species of organisms. "The discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems function beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice sheet," SOI officials ...

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Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

Experts have revealed Antarctica is “more vulnerable” than previously feared, as a new map reveals what lays under the ice. The estimates, created by Bedmap3, have also re-evaluated the ...

A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa’s isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent. The Conversation Africa ...

Antarctica has always been a place of mystery, with its icy surface concealing an entire world beneath. Scientists have long sought to understand what lies below the vast ice sheet and, now, a new map ...

A wide diversity of marine life, that may include previously unknown species, flourishes in a region of ocean once hidden beneath a thick cover of ice, finds a recently-returned Antarctic expedition ...

The World Meteorological Organisation’s State of the Global Climate 2024 report highlights record glacier loss, extreme temperatures, unprecedented CO levels, and accelerating sea level rise. Experts ...

It will also move jobs to two additional facilities in nearby Ladysmith, Wisconsin. The closure affects 146 workers at the Bayonne operation, according to WARN notices filed March 13. Henry ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

Living and working in a remote part of Antarctica is dangerous. The hostile conditions are something researchers stationed there can prepare for, but fear of being attacked by one of their own?