Antarctica

Earthquake of magnitude 7.5 hits Drake Passage off South America

The earthquake struck more than 700 km (435 miles) southeast of Argentina's city of Ushuaia, with a population of about 57,000, the USGS said.

Waves break on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise at the Drake Passage as it navigates towards the Antarctica Peninsula, Antarctica, February 10, 2018
 Beneath the Antarctic ice: Gondwana's lost world revealed by modern technology.

Beneath the Antarctic ice: Gondwana's lost world revealed by modern technology

 An octopus rests on the seafloor at a depth of 1,150 meters in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, in an area where the edge of the shelf and the slope are carved by several underwater channels.

Ancient ecosystem uncovered beneath Antarctic glacier collapse

 The Antarctic midge is the only known insect native to Antarctica.

Antarctica’s only native insect’s unique survival mechanism


Antarctic pyramid-shaped structure under ice sheets sparks curiosity

Theorists can spin this discovery as anything they want, though expert geologists believe it is just a mountain.

 ANTARCTICA – a  raw, pristine, natural, protected and cherished environment.

Antarctic ice levels undergo 'massive decrease,' data shows

Last week, the hottest days of the year record was broken three days in a row.

 An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image.

Climate change may lead to massive tsunamis from Antarctica - study

A recent study found that massive tsunamis from Antarctica hit South America, New Zealand and Southeast Asia during two previous periods of global warming.

 A highly dramatized artistic illustration of an apocalyptic tsunami.

Why does Iran want to send a navy flotilla to Antarctica? - analysis

Iran says that it could achieve direct access to the polar region and therefore claim “sovereignty” in that area.  

 A missile is launched during an exercise of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) navy in the south of Iran, in this picture obtained on January 17, 2023

Rising Antarctic ice melt will dramatically slow global ocean flows - study

Deep ocean water flows from the Antarctic could decline by 40% by 2050, according to a study published on Wednesday in the journal Nature.

 An aerial view of the 200-foot-tall (60-meter-tall) front of the Getz Ice Shelf with cracks, in Antarctica, in this 2016 handout image.

Fastest-changing Antarctic region lost over 3 trillion tons of ice - study

20 major glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment - which is four times larger than the UK - are major contributors to global sea levels.

Antarctic iceberg floating in the Amundsen Sea water, October 2009.

Antarctica: Land at the end of the Earth

Tourists from all over the world are flocking to see it before it sinks like fabled Atlantis under the waves and is lost forever.

 ANTARCTICA – a  raw, pristine, natural, protected and cherished environment.

Iceberg twice the size of New York City breaks free from Antarctica

Despite the fact that climate change is indeed a very real and growing problem and does impact Antarctica, it has nothing to do with this iceberg.

 Piece of Shelf-Ice, Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic melting, major sea level rise is 'not inevitable' - study

Melting of the Antarctic ice cap is contributing to globally rising ocean levels. However, scientists have noticed that the rate of ice loss in one glacial section has slowed.

 Piece of Shelf-Ice, Antarctic Peninsula

Scientists uncover another reason for melting of Antarctic glaciers - study

Researchers from the University of East Anglia found that adjacent ice shelves contribute to instability in other ice shelves downstream.

A close look at the Thwaites Ice Shelf edge as seen from the IceBridge DC-8 on Oct. 16, 2012. The blue areas of ice are denser, compressed ice.