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Commuting to Concordia research station in Antarctica takes days—it’s more remote than the International Space Station.
The cruise industry is under scrutiny for its environmental toll – but a new wave of sustainable initiatives is charting a ...
Solo developer Davit Andreasyan, in partnership with indie.io, invites players to brave the chilling depths of Soviet ...
For more than a century, Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton's 144-foot long ship "Endurance" was lost off the coast of Antarctica beneath the icy Weddell Sea. In 2022, the ship was found ...
Photographer on IceMoustache encrusted with ice, photographer Herbert Ponting stands on an iceberg near McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, in 1911. Ponting was part of the scientific staff on the 1910 ...
In Antarctica, midwinter’s day is a big deal. I’m incredibly lucky to be celebrating it south of 60 degrees latitude onboard a British research ship for the first time in more than a century.
Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea of the Earth's atmosphere in the ancient past, thanks to their ability to trap bubbles of gas within them. "Like a prehistoric fly trapped in amber ...
A new species of dragonfish has surfaced from the chilly waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula, and it has a story that spans nearly a million winters. Researchers report that Akarotaxis gouldae ...
Diving in Antarctica is not for the faint-hearted. First, you often need to chainsaw through the sea ice, then plunge into the dark frozen water. Divers have special equipment from fleece ...
Science Scientists baffled about unknown radio waves emanating from deep within Antarctica: “It’s an interesting problem” A NASA experiment has picked up bizarre cosmic whispers—and they ...
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Anomalous radio signals detected in Antarctica by the ANITA experiment were coming upward from Earth rather than down from the sky ...