Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Antarctica's first sighting on January 28, 1820, by Bellingshausen and Lazarev marked the beginning of unparalleled ...

Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is publishing this notice to announce that a Federal Advisory Committee meeting of the Advisory ...

For instance, in the warm, calm eastern part of the Dotson ice shelf in west Antarctica, an autonomous robot observed basal terraces. In the west of Dotson – which experiences cold, fast ...

Although much of Antarctica has been chartered and collected in maps by different countries this latest edition to be finished at the end of this year has been described “as the most complete so ...

A mountain in Antarctica, hidden beneath layers of snow ... the Ellsworth Mountains are home to jagged peaks and ancient geological history. This region contains fossils of Cambrian-era creatures ...

A group of 20 scientists from New Zealand - and abroad - are about to head to the bottom of the world to study the impacts of climate change on Antarctica's Ross Sea. NIWA's Tangaroa research vessel ...

Pyramid-shaped mountain in Antarctica sparks intrigue and conspiracy t Natural erosion over millions of years credited for its symmetry Experts debunk claims of ancient civilizations or ...

"When we plan something for the long term, it means that we are not going to give up." Space2Sea Antarctica marks the inaugural voyage in a series produced by FUTURE of SPACE (FoS). This ...

The first issue is to answer the question of whether progress has been made in the understanding of the performance of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and HLW-glass in a geologic repository. The answer is ...

One of those objects is a rare copy of David Copperfield that traveled to Antarctica on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s famous Terra Nova expedition in 1910. The novel entertained them during ...