This Blue Monday (20 January), escape the ordinary and apply for the job of a lifetime in Antarctica. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is looking for people to work at its research stations in ...

Blue puddles of water were visible atop the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica after periods of record melting. Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice ...

7, 2024, China is now operating its fifth research station in Antarctica, an area that is protected from military use and economic exploitation by international agreements. At around 5,300 square ...

radars recorded their temperatures at -46 degrees around 7:40 a.m. These temperatures are much colder than Antarctica, whose lowest temperature was a crisp 14 degrees on Monday morning.

CHICAGO (CBS) — In need of a break from Chicago's arctic cold? Try heading to Antarctica. Monday's temperatures are in the single digits, but in Antarctica, highs are in the 30s. Meteorologist ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Why is a remote glacier in Antarctica that contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 1.5 metres melting twice as fast on ...

An international team of scientists in the Antarctic has successfully extracted what is believed to be the world’s oldest ice—a historic milestone for climate science. They drilled down almost ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is at its closest point to the sun on the rotation.

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.