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AntarcticaNOW is an international group of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths and Medicine (STEMM). Our disciplinary fields range from Antarctic research to conservation biology and public policy, but we are united by a single cause: protecting the spectacular biodiversity of Antarctica.

Oct 4, 2024 · Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by extreme heat events, according to new research, sparking concerns about the changing...

Nov 7, 2024 · Stay on top of Antarctica latest developments on the ground with Al Jazeera’s fact-based news, exclusive video footage, photos and updated maps.

Liquid brine permeates the ground below Antarctica's largest ice-free area, new research finds. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected about 80 high-energy neutrinos emitted by a single active galaxy over the course of ten years.

Oct 27, 2023 · At its most expansive, Antarctic sea ice covers an area the size of Antarctica itself, doubling the size of the frozen continent. But the winter sea ice has been shrinking, and this year there...

Apr 22, 2024 · Now, in 2024, the sea ice extent has reached another near-record low: just 766,400 square miles (1.985 million square km) on Feb. 20. A profound "regime shift" has taken place in the Antarctic,...

6 days ago · Yet the ocean processes that control basal melting, and the fate of the entire Antarctic ice sheet, occur on the scale of millimetres. They happen in a thin layer of ocean, just beneath the ice.

Jan 9, 2025 · Scientists drill nearly 2 miles down to pull 1.2 million-year-old ice core from Antarctic Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth’s atmosphere and climate have evolved.

Feb 8, 2024 · Evidence from a 2,000-foot-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank suddenly and dramatically around 8,000 years ago, according to new research — providing an alarming...