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“Atmospheric rivers” are bringing rain to the frozen slopes of the West Antarctic ice sheet, hitting the ice shelves that ...

Global team of researchers compile comprehensive picture of the species found in world's most remote continent A pioneering ...

Sue Halliwell marks the 150th anniversary of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s birth by tracing his ill-fated British ...

Internet users want to know what the strange doorway in Antarctica ice is- theories suggesting Bigfoot or an underground ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

Discovered by the West not much more than 200 years ago, Antarctica’s history is unique when compared to the six other ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled scientific inquiries and accentuated the continent’s importance in regards to global ...

Finally, contemporaneous rocks to the breakup of Antarctic Peninsula from Patagonia that led ... This information was used to generate maps for each island, which are present in the Supplementary ...

What is a continent? We think of it as a large body of land surrounded by the sea, aka, ocean. There are a few continent sized countries. Australia is the only continent that is also one country.

At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...