Antarctic Sound ANTARCTIC PENINSULA A68a James Ross Island Cloud cover Antarctic Sound ANTARCTIC PENINSULA James Ross Island A68a Cloud cover Antarctic Sound ANTARCTIC PENINSULA A68a James Ross Island Cloud cover Antarctic Sound ANTARCTIC PENINSULA A268a James Ross Island Cloud cover A satellite image of the A2100a iceberg captured on Nov.
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Rothera, the British Antarctic Survey station on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Images: British Antarctic SurveyThe British Antarctic Survey has a problem in the form of an enormous crack in the East Antarctic ice sheet.
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"There are various possibilities, the most likely is contact between Antarctic and sub-Antarctic fauna with domestic birds in sub-Antarctic communities such as the Falklands, but they could also be the legacy of old whaling missions, Antarctic research stations and the growth in Antarctic tourism," González-Solís said.
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She also successfully applied for a government-funded Antarctic expedition through the Antarctic Writers and Artists program.
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This upwelling happens near a place called the Antarctic Polar Front — where icy Antarctic oceans meet the warmer Atlantic.
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The first name translates to "Antarctic king," and the second name is in honor of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
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A group of researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) published their findings in the Antarctic Science journal on Thursday.
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London (CNN)Antarctic krill fishing companies have announced that they will voluntarily stop operating in key areas around the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Antarctic Crack Threatens Scientific Research StationThe British Antarctic Survey has a problem in the form of an enormous crack in the East Antarctic…Read more ReadResearchers with the British Antarctic Survey aren't' sure if or when the Brunt Ice Shelf will collapse, or what effects a calving event will have on the ice sheet as a whole.
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"In raising the profile of Antarctic women, we realised there aren't that many Antarctic men that are on Wikipedia," she pointed out.
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When, in 2005, Halley needed rebuilding again, the British Antarctic Survey, which operates the U.K.'s Antarctic footprint, took a novel approach.
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In 1995, though, the Larsen A ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula, which is adjacent to the West Antarctic ice sheet, collapsed.
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British couple tie the knot in the Antarctic A British couple became the first to officially wed in the British Antarctic Territory.
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Athena Dinar, communications manager for the British Antarctic Survey, acknowledged this years' ice loss in the Antarctic, and said more loss is likely.
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This isolated base is located near the South Pole, about 1,500 miles from Rothera, a British Antarctic Survey Station on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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They are both contractors working for Lockheed Martin Antarctic Support, which is the main support contractor to NSF for the U.S. Antarctic Program.
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" According to the Antarctic and Southern Coalition, a which calls itself the "only nongovernmental organization working full time to preserve the Antarctic continent and its surrounding Southern Ocean," the "the western Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest warming areas on Earth.
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Plastic debris was far worse in the Antarctic than expected, researchers from University of Hull in England and British Antarctic Survey said this week.
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The entire Greenland Ice Sheet melted during that time, as did the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and parts of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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Volunteers for the Antarctic Sabbatical will be chosen by a team of five people, including Jones-Williams, a person from an unspecified "industry organization," an Airbnb employee, an "independent member," and a representative from Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions LLC, an Antarctic "travel and logistics" company.
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Even as scientists warn of the dire consequences of West Antarctic ice sheet collapse, sea ice has been growing along parts of the Antarctic coastline.
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While the Antarctic Peninsula is rapidly warming, the greater Antarctic continent is still a sprawling, frigid landmass — with mountains up to their necks in ice.
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Crossing the Antarctic I read with pleasure David Grann's account of Henry Worsley's solo trek across the Antarctic continent ("The White Darkness," February 12th & 19th).
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It will be considered by the Antarctic governance body, the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, at its October 2018 in Australia.
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Gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) live in the sub-Antarctic islands and Antarctic region, and they like to hunt for fish and krill (tiny shrimp-like crustaceans).
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In the wild, king penguins often dwell in sub-Antarctic regions, but they are more accustomed to milder climates than their Antarctic cousins, the emperor penguins.
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Both patients are seasonal employees of Lockheed Martin Antarctic Support Contract, which offers operations and research support for the United States Antarctic Program, the foundation said.
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Image: Antarctic Heritage FundFantastic news: the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust has recovered a 118-year-old watercolor painting from famed polar explorer, Dr. Edward Wilson.
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The big picture: Two large areas of Antarctica are mainly responsible with the acceleration in ice melt: The Antarctic Peninsula and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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According to CNN, scientists at the Australian Antarctic Program, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography made the discovery last Thursday.
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According to CNN, scientists at the Australian Antarctic Program, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography made the discovery last Thursday.
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Image: Antarctic Heritage TrustSince May 2016, the New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust, along with the Canterbury Museum Lab, has been preserving artifacts found at Cape Adare.
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The species of bright bird in question is the Antarctic skua, which lives on the Antarctic Peninsula and subantarctic islands in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.
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The NSF, which runs the US Antarctic program, flew Aldrin to the McMurdo Station on the Antarctic coast, and he's expected to continue on to New Zealand.
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But the colony "has now all but disappeared," British Antarctic Survey researchers said in a statement accompanying the publication of their study in the journal Antarctic Science.
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"There was no particular effort to reach the public at all," he told The Antarctic Sun, a newsletter published by the United States Antarctic Program, in 2007.
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Membership in IAATO remains voluntary, although all Antarctic tour operators must obtain a permit to travel in Antarctica from one of the parties to the Antarctic Treaty.
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He also continued research supported by the National Science Foundation and conducted with the United States Antarctic Research Program (now known as the United States Antarctic Program).
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"2020 marks 200 years since Nathaniel Palmer laid claim to the discovery of the Antarctic mainland, making it an iconic year for all Antarctic travel," Barber said.
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In the new study, British Antarctic Survey researchers picked a much tougher site: about 45 feet deep in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The new 2000-day Epic Antarctica voyage traverses the Antarctic Peninsula, the 2135-foot Ross Ice Shelf and UNESCO sites on Australia and New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands.
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According to the study, the volcanoes are concentrated along the 1,864-mile-long West Antarctic Rift System, which extends from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The Twin Otter flew completed this leg of the trip from the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Research Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, where it had arrived 1:15 p.m.
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On June 14, the Otters flew from Canada to South America and then to the Antarctic Peninsula, where they both landed at Rothera, the British Antarctic Survey said Monday.
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Image: A. Fleming, British Antarctic SurveyLast month, humanity watched with a mixture of awe and terror as an iceberg half the size of Jamaica broke clean off the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Image: Antarctic Heritage TrustConservators with Antarctic Heritage Trust have uncovered a perfectly preserved fruitcake that dates back to Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition, which began in 1910.
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The reason there is an ozone hole in the Antarctic is that it is the coldest place on Earth -- it is so cold that clouds form in the Antarctic stratosphere.
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In 2008 the British Antarctic Survey flew over a whole collection of these freakishly perfect tabular icebergs, which had broken off of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Scientists at the University of Leeds and the British Antarctic Survey on Seymour Island in the Antarctic Peninsula recently completed testing to determine the age of more than 6,000 marine fossils.
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During the 'heroic age of Antarctic exploration', a period between 1897 and 1917, explorers such as Scott – who led two expeditions to the Antarctic, the latter a fatal one – kept logbooks.
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Fishing for Antarctic toothfish is governed under the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which forbids gillnet fishing and imposes strict rules on catches in the Southern Ocean.
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Air temperatures have risen over the Antarctic Peninsula, where Larsen C is located, said David Vaughan, director of science at the British Antarctic Survey, but not as much in other locations.
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Similarly, the research showed that Sydney, Australia is most affected by the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet on the other side of the Antarctic continent from the eastern Australian city.
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A research station on an island in the Antarctic recorded a new record-high temperature for the region — less than a week after the temperature record was shattered on the Antarctic continent.
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EDT The rescue plane has left the South Pole with one patient aboard, and is flying the 10-hour flight back to the British Antarctic Survey's Rothera Base on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Truffer says much of the melting of West Antarctic ice shelves has to do with relatively warmer water seeping into the West Antarctic region, which melt and weaken the ice from below.
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Only hours ago, a single plane landed at Rothera, a British Antarctic Survey Station on the Antarctic Peninsula, after picking up two crew members from the South Pole who urgently need medical help.
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When Paula Froelich, the woman who runs the blog A Broad Abroad, interviewed Australian Antarctic Division field training officer Tony Donaldson, he said that promiscuous sex is common at the American Antarctic stations.
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The good news Thursday is that all 68 expeditioners and crew aboard the grounded icebreaker ship are "safe and well," according to the Australian Antarctic Division, a government agency that conducts Antarctic research.
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Meier points out that Antarctic sea ice is extremely variable.
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The custom Antarctic fire trucks come with stainless steel valves.
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Antarctic ice shelves calve at irregular intervals, producing large icebergs.
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Tick. Climate researchers drilling cores deep into the Antarctic icecap?
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What Happens When That Enormous Antarctic Ice Shelf Finally Breaks?
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Meanwhile, Antarctic sea ice is melting faster than anyone predicted.
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This mountain, Thompson Peak, is completely flanked by Antarctic glaciers.
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Previous images of Antarctic terrain left much to be desired.
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In 1959, the Antarctic Treaty dedicated the continent to research.
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There was even a small demonstration on the Antarctic continent.
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The first Antarctic Biennale is expected to launch next spring.
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Knowledge gained from Antarctic research must be freely shared, and in 1991 the signatories to the Antarctic Treaty agreed to cease mining operations on the continent unless they're first approved by an international body.
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In this latest study, published today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers led by Stephen Roberts with the British Antarctic Survey analyzed guano-rich layers of sediment that accumulated over millennia in an Antarctic lake.
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But this Antarctic crossing has been his toughest challenge to date.
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Several water samples detected microplastics in remote parts of the Antarctic.
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That change has exposed more vulnerable Antarctic ice shelves to CDW.
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One of the works on display is Antarctic Village – No Borders.
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Japanese fisherman have been hunting minke whales in the Antarctic Ocean.
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To use his considerable Twitter following to access cute Antarctic animals.
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It's global sea ice area — meaning both the Arctic and Antarctic.
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In the comic, Veidt maintained a secret Antarctic retreat called Karnak.
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It probably won't crack the top 20 largest-recorded Antarctic icebergs.
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It's not just changing landscapes in the Arctic and Antarctic oceans.
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Warming waters are also melting Arctic and Antarctic glaciers from underneath.
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Some Antarctic mosses, for example, could grow faster as temperatures rise.
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There's a pole you have to get to, in the ANTARCTIC.
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Now the impact has rippled all the way to Antarctic glaciers.
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Deception Island is an Antarctic landmark and a destination for tourists.
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Trilobites The Antarctic midge spends more than half its life frozen.
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Another tool at the Antarctic midge's disposal is rapid cold hardening.
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I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.
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It is the West Antarctic ice sheet which scares scientists most.
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But the landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula has been fundamentally changed.
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Huge formations of rock, snow and ice line the Antarctic landscape.
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He was invited to cover the Antarctic Biennale by its organizers.
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Fortunately, the British Antarctic Survey was aware of the dangers of calving when it installed Halley VI; the latest in a long line of Antarctic research stations that led to the discovery of the ozone hole.
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For more than five decades, the South Pole has remained free of any one nation's rule; rather, under the Antarctic Treaty, which includes signatures from 53 nations, Antarctic territory is a demilitarized, nuclear-free, neutral zone.
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After consulting the White Desert doctor and the US Antarctic Program doctor, Aldrin was evacuated on the first available flight to McMurdo Station, a research station on the Antarctic coast run by the National Science Foundation.
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Much of the Antarctica exhibition focuses on the temporary "Antarctic Village – No Borders" they constructed on that expedition, including one of the 50 dome tents adorned with the flags of nations that signed the Antarctic Treaty.
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Javier Bardem is an Oscar-winning actor who has joined Greenpeace's expedition to the Antarctic to call for the creation of the largest wildlife reserve on Earth: an Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary covering 1.8 million square kilometres.
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The 115-day expedition was the first Antarctic harvest since the International Court of Justice's ruling in 2014 which said Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not a scientific endeavor, as the country claims, and it must stop.
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The vacation rental platform partnered with non-profit advocacy group Ocean Conservancy to run the "Antarctic Sabbatical," which will involve traveling to the region in December to join Antarctic Scientist Kirstie Jones-Williams on a research mission.
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Antarctic researchers are being a bit creepy in the name of science.
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The hulking West Antarctic ice sheet has been worrying scientists for decades.
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Data suggests that when the arctic would cool, the Antarctic would warm.
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In fact, Antarctic sea ice reached a record maximum in October 2014.
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Ballsy Penguin Hops Aboard Australian Antarctic Boat Don't call him a stowaway!
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It's the aquarium's first sub-Antarctic penguin chick since the colony arrived.
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Another Antarctic base, British Halley VI, is also conducting the simulator training.
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Scientists are worried about the increasingly fragile ice shelves in the Antarctic.
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But it's clear that melting Antarctic ice is a multigenerational time bomb.
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In 2007, researchers revived Antarctic bacteria that was eight million years old.
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Or, it could be yet another Antarctic area showing symptoms of instability.
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Follow these steps, and you could be at home in the Antarctic.
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Contrary to what some may think, the Antarctic is full of life.
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The world has a lot invested in keeping the Antarctic ice intact.
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Measuring the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets was a case in point.
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Imagine the Antarctic as a P____ and It's Sort of Like That.
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Read our Antarctic Dispatches here, and take yourself there in virtual reality.
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Watching old movies used to be very popular at Antarctic research centers.
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The Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04) included an official bagpiper. Adm.
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For Antarctic explorers, almost all food was dried or consumed from tins.
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The continent is also situated between the Antarctic, Indian, and Pacific oceans.
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Twelve countries signed a treaty in 1959 to protect the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The last hunting season in the Antarctic for Japan ran from Dec.
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The Weddell sea, essentially the heart of the Antarctic Ocean, is unprotected.
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Recognizing these risks, heavy fuel oil has been banned in Antarctic waters.
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The Antarctic Treaty is one of the world's most successful international agreements.
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An emperor penguin colony on Snow Hill Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula.
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Here's a chart from the National Snow and Ice Data Center showing Antarctic sea ice extent: And here, via NASA, is what Antarctic sea ice extent looked like in November 2016 compared with the historical median: Scientists aren't sure whether this year's retreat of Antarctic ice is related to global warming at all — there's so much more natural variability in Antarctica because the ice is thinner than in the Arctic (it disappears almost completely every summer) and the ice along the Antarctic coasts is more vulnerable to rough weather.
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"This is a major step forward in understanding solid Earth processes beneath the Antarctic ice sheet," said Mike Coffin, a researcher at the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), in an interview with Gizmodo.
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The post shows a portal link between Argentina and King George Island, an Antarctic island and site of a research station operated by the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), whose rules are even stricter than those of the NSF.
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Australian Antarctic Division, a government agency that conducts Antarctic research, reported a barge took them off the ship -- no more than 15 at a time, necessitating a few trips -- and brought them to land on Mawson station wharf.
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News of Antarctica's accelerating ice melt garnered worldwide headlines yesterday, as scientists revealed that 3 trillion tons of ice has been lost to the sea since 1992 — mostly from the thawing West Antarctic Ice Sheet and Antarctic Peninsula.
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The new year "marks 200 years since Nathaniel Palmer laid claim to the discovery of the Antarctic mainland, making it an iconic year for all Antarctic travel," Tom Barber, cofounder of luxury travel agency Original Travel, told Hoffower.
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"Personally the Antarctic sea ice is so variable from year to year, it's hard to draw any firm conclusions from this record low"For instance, a study published last year in Remote Sensing of Environment postulated that winds controlled by Antarctic continental topography, and currents controlled by the depth of the Southern Ocean, help keep Antarctic sea ice relatively stable, especially when compared with the Arctic.
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In 1971 he secured the commission to design an eight-cent stamp commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement among 12 nations to ensure that their research in the Antarctic should be freely shared and nonmilitary.
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The Antarctic ice sheet holds roughly 583 percent of the Earth's fresh water, and despite the mass shrinking of its Arctic cousin over the last decade, the Antarctic has experienced several periods of growth over the same time frame.
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Glenn Johnstone, marine biologist with the Australian Antarctic Division, tells us in the video that the footage was shot close to the eastern Antarctic coast, five kilometers from the Casey Research Station and about 3800 kilometers below Perth, Australia.
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This has been happening in parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, but it is not guaranteed to happen with Larsen C. The Larsen C Ice Shelf is the most northerly of the remaining major Antarctic Peninsula ice shelves.
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Location map of obscured cone-like structures across the West Antarctic Rift System.
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The proposed drilling site is near the Trans-Antarctic Mountains in eastern Antarctica.
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Zabel is one of 10 researchers currently posted at the remote Antarctic station.
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Areas of the Antarctic are gonna break off much faster than we anticipated.
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The Antarctic Peninsula is one of the fastest-warming parts of the world.
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A team of researchers wade through melting Antarctic ice on January 22nd, 20003.
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All dogs were banned because they might introduce canine diseases to Antarctic wildlife.
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Satellite image showing the massive Antarctic iceberg and its smaller sibling on Sept.
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But patches in the rapidly-warming North Antarctic Peninsula could triple in size.
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This happens above the planet's high latitudes, such as the Arctic and Antarctic.
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For decades, though, he doubted that he was bold enough for the Antarctic.
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Regardless of what happens, the geography of the Antarctic peninsula is forever changed.
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The Thwaites Glacier, a rapidly melting portion of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
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The Adélie are actually useful for monitoring the Antarctic environment as a whole.
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Warming ocean temperatures are causing ice to shrink, which is altering Antarctic ecosystems.
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No human beings are indigenous to Antarctica, according to the Australian Antarctic Division.
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The "Antarctic Sabbatical" follows Airbnb's inaugural sabbatical trip to Italy earlier this year.
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Four virtual-reality films take you on, above and below the Antarctic ice.
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Japan does not recognize Australia's claim to the Antarctic territories, and ignores it.
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It's the first official wedding to take place in the British Antarctic Territory.
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Meet the 'Antarctic king' You probably didn't expect dinosaurs to live in Antarctica.
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The Antarctic ozone hole was the smallest it's ever been since its discovery.
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David K. A. Barnes is a marine ecologist for the British Antarctic Survey.
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Antarctic blue carbon is developing in areas where fishing is not yet occurring.
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Sauron is some pterodactyl villain in the antarctic jungle land called Savage Land.
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Ice loss on Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating, a 2015 Science study found.
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Scientists confirmed on Wednesday that an iceberg the size of Delaware has broken off from the Antarctic Peninsula, providing a look into how the Antarctic ice sheet could fall apart in the future as a consequence of human-caused climate change.
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Scientists from the Australian Antarctic Program, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego have watched developments on the ice shelf for almost 20 years, after first spotting a rift developing in the early 2000s.
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These days, however, scientists studying ice movement on the Antarctic are inundated by measurements—so much so that today, a group of scientists has published the combined results of 24 different surveys of Antarctic ice loss in an edition of Nature.
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"Assessing the Recovery of Antarctic Predator from Historical Exploitation," recently published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, details an inspiring increase in the western South Atlantic Humpback whale population in the Southern Ocean – also known as the Antarctic Ocean.
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Map of the Antarctic Peninsula showing the Special Area for Scientific Study now agreed.
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The agreement was proposed by British Antarctic Survey scientists Susie Grant and Phil Trathan.
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Scientist were never able to determine why Antarctic sea ice increased prior to 2014.
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A large rift is widening across an increasingly fragile Antarctic ice shelf, scientists found.
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The record in the wider Antarctic region is 19.8 degrees C in January 1982.
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In the 2016-000 season, its fleet took 333 minke whales in the Antarctic.
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In 2014, the International Court of Justice ruled that Japan should halt Antarctic whaling.
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A chunk of ice the size of India has also melted near the Antarctic.
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For years, climate skeptics argued that the growing Antarctic sea ice disproved climate change.
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These are the only planes in the world capable of withstanding midwinter Antarctic temperatures.
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This satellite image reveals just how quickly ice is moving on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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The Antarctic Peninsula has already experienced southward-moving ice shelf collapses in recent years.
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The Antarctic research did contain, as the Times reported, one morsel of good news.
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"There definitely were a lot of little carnivores in that [Antarctic] forest," Peecook said.
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Icebergs do separate from ice sheets in the Antarctic on a fairly regular basis.
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That's unless a lunar eclipse happens, as British Antarctic Survey researchers observed on Sept.
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And the western Antarctic ice sheet has garnered a lot of attention recently, too.
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"I was getting emotional, nostalgic," O'Brady told the Times about his last Antarctic stretch.
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In the 2016-2017 season, its fleet took 333 minke whales in the Antarctic.
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An abandoned whaling station on Whalers Bay, on Deception Island off the Antarctic peninsula.
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At Earth's opposite pole, Antarctic sea ice reached its lowest June coverage on record.
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That's the issue that haunts the Antarctic Treaty, and the Treaty System more generally.
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When the Antarctic wants to rid itself of ice, it has to get creative.
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Four virtual-reality films that take you on, above and below the Antarctic ice.
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To prepare for the Antarctic trek, Rudd trained himself, putting in hours of powerlifting.
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It's a company that takes people in partnership with National Geographic, Arctic, Antarctic, Galapagos.
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Looking back 2 million years ago, the Antarctic ice sheet was also shrinking quickly.
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It was found by sensors deep in the Antarctic ice in the IceCube detector.
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How relatively warmer ocean currents seep under the ends of Antarctic glaciers, like Thwaites.
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Our four virtual-reality films take you on, above and below the Antarctic ice.
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There wasn't even a good field guide to Antarctic wildlife in the Orion's library.
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But there had been no long Antarctic winter, no months of sharing seal meat.
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"It's interesting, like a tale of two penguins on the Antarctic Peninsula," said Strycker.
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In 2014, Japan's Antarctic whaling was ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice.
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The area extends to parts of the Antarctic, which Australia has a claim to.
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But the IAATO website lists more than 100 landing sites on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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But recently it appears to have made some Antarctic tourists, including me, very happy.
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Full board rates begin at $13,995 per person and include Antarctic flights and activities.
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Most have worked on Arctic or Antarctic expeditions before, though never for this long.
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Like North American timber or Antarctic ice, Italy's marble is not an infinite resource.
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So what exactly did this Antarctic balloon observe, and why is it so weird?
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Even though the iceberg this creates appears massive, it actually isn't by Antarctic standards.
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"The University of Tasmania is a leader in marine and Antarctic science," says Monocle.
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The Antarctic ice sheet is also getting smaller, but at a much slower rate.
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New research released in a special Geological Society publication series identifies 91 new volcanoes in a region known as the West Antarctic Rift System, a 20133,200-mile-long (3,500 km) area that extends from Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula.
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New species of Antarctic sea anemone could hint at alien lifeA research robot out on a routine test inadvertently stumbled upon a never-before-seen species of…Read more ReadFascinatingly, life can also be found clinging to the Antarctic sea ice itself.
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The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is meeting in Hobart, Australia, in a bid to find consensus for a deal to conserve and manage the marine ecosystems in the Antarctic Ocean, also known as the Southern Ocean.
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Parties to the Antarctic Treaty system could also establish protected areas that could be made off limits to tourist vessels, or agree to enact domestic laws to enable authorities to prosecute visitors for Antarctic misbehavior (penguin cuddling, for instance) after they return home.
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Get your dancing shoes on, because you'll be heading to the Antarctic in no time.
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Red-hot magma bursting through the Antarctic ice sheet evokes a particularly powerful mental image.
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It'll likely fracture before drifting far enough north to enter into the Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
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On the Antarctic Peninsula, meanwhile, huddle Mount Ahab, Tashtego Point and a glacier named Pequod.
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Dr. Joy points out that, for research purposes, there are advantages to using Antarctic meteorites.
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Sea Shepherd said the ship was hunting in an Australian sanctuary off the Antarctic coast.
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Since it's not in the water, Antarctic ice raises global sea levels when it melts.
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If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses, researchers predict that the number will exceed 1,000.
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Even in the remote Antarctic, species from mites to elephant seals are feeling the pressure.
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Likewise, those found in Antarctic ice may have arrived up to a million years ago.
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Without their chilling effect, more heat might have gone south to melt the Antarctic ice.
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Although, I have to say that this map of Shackleton's Antarctic explorations looks straight enough.
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There's already evidence that warmer ocean water is melting West Antarctic ice shelves from beneath.
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But the Antarctic Polar Front is expected to change as the world keeps warming up.
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So for an Antarctic naval patrol vessel, it makes sense to get some extra help.
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On a brighter note, maybe that absurd Antarctic hotel will soon become a lakefront getaway.
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Scientists agree that the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet has already gone into an unstoppable decline.
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The entire Antarctic Peninsula is undergoing "fundamental and widespread" ecological change, a new study finds.
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During the Antarctic summer, the station houses up to 50 scientific researchers and support staff.
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The Antarctic, though, turned on him as fiercely as it had ever turned on them.
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Antarctic glaciers are often too big and too isolated to accurately measure from the ground.
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Indeed, when Eisenhower first proposed the Outer Space Treaty, the Antarctic Treaty was the inspiration.
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In 2019, it will tour the Arctic and Antarctic seas with 90 scientists on staff.
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Goddard's Operation IceBridge measured the volatile Antarctic ice for the eighth year in a row.
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Ice is breaking off into the Antarctic Ocean and ICE is breaking apart young families.
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Whether they're in your teeth or in an Antarctic glacier, cavities are a bad sign.
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In this case, both the Arctic and Antarctic are at record lows for the date.
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And now this 2,20023-square-mile behemoth is slowly floating away from the Antarctic Peninsula.
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And now this 2,240-square-mile behemoth is slowly floating away from the Antarctic Peninsula.
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A journey into a continent in distress The Antarctic is the planet's last true wilderness.
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Grann's article on Worsley's many treks across the Antarctic in emulation of Shackleton was fascinating.
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Climate researchers found that the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting at unprecedented rates.
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They will cease fishing in certain ecologically sensitive areas around the Antarctic Peninsula by 2020.
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The Antarctic has long been an area of dispute for conservationists and commercial fishing interests.
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But to really solve the conundrum, polar scientists must keep vigilantly watching the dynamic Antarctic.
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In 2014, the International Court of Justice ruled that Japan should halt its Antarctic whaling.
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"If you put more poo in the system, the Antarctic wildlife like that," he said.
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But the jungle is not the Antarctic, and Murray is barely up to the task.
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The Antarctic region is heating up rapidly due to heat-trapping gas pollution from humans.
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Scientists estimate the Antarctic melting will contribute six inches to sea-level rise by 2100.
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Plus, huddling with a loved one can make the Antarctic cold a bit more bearable.
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David Marchant while she worked with him on an Antarctic glacier that carried his name.
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The Antarctic region has set another stunningly high temperature record: 69.35 degrees Fahrenheit (20.75°C).
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But the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed by 5.4 degrees in just the last 50 years.
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Some look at the natural ranges of Antarctic species, observing the highest temperatures they tolerate.
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Most of the time, however, ice is slippery, as ice skaters and Antarctic penguins demonstrate.
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A photo of a crab-eater seal diving beneath Antarctic ice won Best of Show.
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Chilean sea bass, for instance, is actually Patagonian toothfish or Antarctic toothfish -- not sea bass.
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Last year the Antarctic sea ice reached its smallest extent since records began in 1979.
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In November, physicists discovered 28 strange particles called neutrinos buried deep under the Antarctic ice.
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Antarctic sea ice, meanwhile, was 9.8 percent below average, tied with 2011 for 10th-smallest.
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"The landscape of the Antarctic Peninsula changed forever," Project Midas said in a blog post.
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Bergel said they had used GPS and meetings with Antarctic experts in a bid to avoid floating ice caps and a similar fate on his December trip, which started at Union Glacier and went past the South Pole, Leverett Glacier and the Trans-Antarctic Mountains.
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The West Antarctic ice sheet has been called the "weak underbelly" of the Antarctic continent, and for good reason: Its glaciers, which contain enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by at least 10 feet, are shedding mass rapidly as the planet heats up.
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But the ozone hole over the Antarctic reached a record size in 2015, casting some doubt over claims of a recovery, and the UN report said it was still unclear whether healing in the Antarctic could be attributed to a decline in ozone-depleting gases.
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Interactive: Protecting the Antarctic There are huge numbers of krill in Antarctic waters, but some studies show that their numbers have declined in recent decades, which has prompted groups like Greenpeace to campaign for the krill fishing industry to stop operations in sensitive areas.
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