At an extremely remote Antarctic outpost, scientists have unearthed a pristine sample of our planet's history. It's an ice core 2,800 meters, or some 1.7 miles, long. But it's not just the length ...
A Chinese six-legged robot dog, tested in Antarctica, excels in carrying heavy loads in extreme cold with anti-slip, ...
Australian scientists are monitoring the rapid melt of Denman Glacier, one of the largest frozen rivers in East Antarctica.
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS ... that wouldn't be possible with scientists alone. Maintaining an outpost on the world's coldest, driest, windiest, and most remote continent requires a ...
Jacob Chalif is part of a U.S. National Science Foundation project collecting some of the world’s oldest ice — dating back as many as a million years or more — for a Dartmouth College study on climate ...
For her, it's a chance to get an unrivalled glimpse of the masses of wildlife that congregate on the tiny outpost, halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica. "I find it hard to describe in words ...
A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...
Two decades ago, fewer than 20,000 tourists made the journey to the icy continent each year. Last year it was more than ...