For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...
In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, ...
Antarctica, once a frozen polar desert, is now experiencing rainfall due to rising global temperatures. This shift, particularly on the warming Antarctic Peninsula, accelerates glacier melt, threatens ...
Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life except around the coasts. But this wasn't always the case. In 1833, naturalist James Eights found fossilized wood buried in the continent's ...
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Did you know the largest desert in the world isn’t hot? It’s cold! Surprised? A desert doesn’t need to be sandy—it just has to be very dry. Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth. This continent, ...
Antarctica plays a crucial role in Earth's climate system by reflecting solar radiation back into space. The large white ice ...
A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...
USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) enjoys ice liberty while the cutter sits hove-to in McMurdo Sound during Operation Deep Freeze, Jan. 7, 2025. US Coast Guard photo The U.S. Coast Guard’s only heavy ...
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