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Antarctica

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An All-Community Push to “Close the Loops” on Southern Ocean Dynamics

by Luke G. Bennetts, Callum J. Shakespeare and Catherine A. Vreugdenhil 12 September 202412 September 2024

A new study highlights the connected nature of the Southern Ocean dynamic system, the research priorities needed to understand its influence on climate change, the importance of cross-disciplinary collaborations.

一只头上绑着天线的海豹坐在草丛中,对着镜头微笑。
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海豹帮助科学家在南极洲别林斯高晋海取得新发现

by Nathaniel Scharping 1 July 20241 July 2024

研究人员通过分析海豹和水下滑翔机收集的水文信息,发现了新的融水流,以及一个新的海底槽。

Repeating rainbow lines overlain on a grayscale topographic map of a section of Thwaites Glacier
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Radar Data Show Thwaites Gets a Daily Bath of Warm Seawater

by Anupama Chandrasekaran 27 June 202427 June 2024

The Doomsday Glacier, predicted to raise global sea level by more than half a meter, could be exposed to more warm ocean water than previously thought.

A meltwater lake surrounded by a ring fracture on Antarctica’s George VI ice shelf.
Posted inNews

Antarctic Ice Doughnuts May Hold the Key to Shelf Collapse

by J. Besl 13 June 202413 June 2024

The first direct record of ring fractures in Antarctic ice shows how the phenomenon could cause rapid ice shelf collapse.

A seal with an antenna strapped to its head sits in a patch of grass and beams at the camera.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Seals Help Scientists Make Discoveries in Antarctica’s Bellingshausen Sea

by Nathaniel Scharping 4 June 20242 July 2024

By analyzing hydrographic information gathered by seals and an undersea glider, researchers found new meltwater currents, as well as a new seafloor trough.

An ice floe floats in the Amundsen Sea close to the shore of West Antarctica.
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Confined at Sea at the End of the World

by Sofia Moutinho 23 May 202423 May 2024

Embedded on a research cruise in the Antarctic, a journalist joins a scientists’ “summer camp.”

Close-up of two people in red parkas collecting a black rock on ice
Posted inNews

Antarctic Meteorites Are Going, Going, May Soon Be Gone

by Nathaniel Scharping 2 May 20242 May 2024

If warming ice gobbles up meteorites, science may lose a cheap source of space rocks.

Posted inNews

Núcleos de hielo de la Antártica capturan la contaminación de los metales pesados y su historia

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 April 202422 April 2024

Un núcleo de hielo que tiene registro más de 2 milenios, sugiere que la minería y la metalurgia aumentaron y disminuyeron con acontecimientos como las guerras y las epidemias.

Satellite image of a polynya (area without ice) in Antarctica. Most of the image is white snow or ice, but the polynya area is blue and green.
Posted inNews

Holes in Ross Sea Ice Grow and Shrink in Unexpected Cycle

by Amy Mayer 9 April 202411 April 2024

Changes in polynya area in the Ross Sea region off Antarctica follow a previously unidentified 16-year periodicity.

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Posted inNews

Drilling into Antarctica’s Past

by Rebecca Owen 1 April 20241 April 2024

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet melted rapidly around 8,000 years ago. Could that event foretell the future?

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