Antarctica
Brunt Ice Shelf Breaking Up With Antarctica This Year?
January 12, 2021. (Click image for high-resolution view.) Two years after the Brunt Ice Shelf seemed poised to produce a berg twice the size of New York City, the ice is still hanging on. But the calving of one, maybe two, large icebergs is inevitable. The question is: when? Ice scientists are watching to see …
Scientists Discover The South Pole Is Warming 3x Faster Than The Rest of The Planet
The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean temperatures, new research showed Monday. Antarctica’s temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the …
Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWhy is Antarctica’s mighty Thwaites Glacier melting? Earth’s great ice sheets, Greenland and Antarctica, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions. A comprehensive review of satellite data acquired at both poles is unequivocal in its assessment of …
From a glacier break to record temperatures, Antarctica had quite the week in climate change
This week, an iceberg the size of Atlanta broke off a glacier. Researchers discovered a dramatic decline in Antarctic penguin colonies. And Antarctica may have just registered its hottest temperature ever. In case all of that was not enough to make you at least a little concerned, yet another unusually high temperature was logged in …
Antarctica melting: Climate change and the journey to the ‘doomsday glacier’
The images are murky at first. Sediment sweeps past the camera as Icefin, a bright yellow remotely operated robot submarine, moves tentatively forward under the ice. Then the waters begin to clear. Icefin is under almost half a mile (600m) of ice, at the front of one the fastest-changing large glaciers in the world. Suddenly …
Climate change: ‘We’re not perfect’, says Marion Cotillard on Antarctica trip
Actor Marion Cotillard has travelled to Antarctica with Greenpeace to learn about how climate change, plastic waste and industrial fishing are damaging wildlife. “As pristine as it looks, even a remote place like this one is impacted by harmful human activities,” she said. Speaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme during her trip, she explained what …
Denman Glacier: Deepest point on land found in Antarctica
Image copyright BedMachine/UCI/BAS Image caption Denman’s deep trough (dark blue) is 20km wide and 100km long – all filled with ice The deepest point on continental Earth has been identified in East Antarctica, under Denman Glacier. This ice-filled canyon reaches 3.5km (11,500ft) below sea level. Only the great ocean trenches go deeper. The discovery is …
Antarctica plane flight goes missing on way from Chile
“The plane is presumed to have crashed, given that the amount of fuel and the plane’s autonomy had already run out. Given that, it is already assumed that the plane has crashed,” said Gen. Francisco Torres in a televised press conference. The C-130 Hercules aircraft had departed from the Chilean capital of Santiago and stopped …
Chilean Air Force plane crashes en route to Antarctica with 38 people aboard
A Chilean Air Force plane flying to Antarctica with 38 people on board crashed on Monday afternoon, officials said. The C130 Hercules, which took off from the city of Punta Arenas, was flying to President Eduardo Frei Montalva Antarctic Air Base when it disappeared, Chile’s Air Force said in a statement. The plane, which was …
Antarctica: Metal meteorite quest set to get under way
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionKatie Joy and Geoff Evatt: “We could find up to four or five buried meteorites” A team of British scientists has arrived in the Antarctic to try to find the continent’s “missing meteorites”. The group, from the University of Manchester, will spend six weeks scouring a remote …
