Team of scientists retrieve massive Antarctic core sample to better understand warming planet
Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a rapidly-warming planet.
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Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a rapidly-warming planet.
Scientists have determined that at least six new aquatic species have been thriving under an Antarctic ice shelf.
Scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration warn of a "grim outlook" for the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the "Doomsday Glacier."
Their work near the South Pole means camping on the ice without showers or flushing toilets for seven weeks — but what we can learn about climate change there is essential to science.
The sighting came just days after scientists declared the iceberg was "on the move" for the first time in 37 years.
The iceberg, which once hosted a Soviet research station, split from the Antarctic coastline in 1986, but then became grounded in the Weddell Sea.
Emperor penguins are not simply majestic. These birds are tough creatures who manage to survive in some of the harshest weather conditions imaginable.
Record numbers of tourists are set to tackle challenges like scale Mount Everest and exploring Antarctica. Sometimes they die.
Researchers at San Jose State just spent an Antarctic summer with Emperor penguins. (3-30-23)
The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.
One of the biggest icebergs ever recorded, a trillion-ton behemoth more than seven times the size of New York City, has broken off of Antarctica, triggering disagreement among scientists over whether global warming is to blame.
Australia and Antarctica may have once been next door neighbors with California and Arizona, according to new findings by USGS scientists.
A sixth grader in Sacramento has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Antarctica.
A San Francisco man is attempting to run seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.
Watch Metallica's entire Antarctica concert played without amps...
Metallica have played every continent but one. That's going to change when the thrash metal legends cross Antarctica off of their to-do list...
Repeating her world-class pin-up feat for a 2nd year, Kate Upton graces the cover of the 2013 SI edition, which was officially unveiled Monday night on "Letterman"
