Tag: Antarctica
Concerns are growing about climate change in Antarctica
Antarctica Antarctica covers an area of nearly 14 million square kilometers, making it the fifth largest continent in size, larger than both Europe and Australia. About 98 percent is covered…
Melting of Antarctica: scientists fear a climate change
Is the Antarctic sea ice tipping into the unknown? For a long time, this part of the globe seemed to escape climate change: the observations of scientists had shown a…
Bird nests completely failed in the most important nesting areas of Antarctica – previously hundreds of thousands of nests, now three
According to the researchers, global warming caused violent snowstorms, which made nesting impossible for many bird species. Queen Maud’s Land in Antarctica is home to the most important nesting sites…
A hot-water drill melted a 600-meter-deep hole in the glacier for a robotic camera – a phenomenon that is happening all over Antarctica was revealed
The shape of the sea floor is causing the Thwaites Glacier to break up faster than scientists had previously thought. The Thwaites Glacier, located in Antarctica, has been called the…
ENEA, Antarctica: Concordia base, summer 2022-2023 research campaign begins
(Finance) – It kicks off in the Italian-French Antarctic base of Concordia there summer research campaign 2022-23 of the National Antarctic Research Program (PNRA), funded by Ministry of University and…
The “end of the world glacier” in Antarctica is hanging by a thread!
The Thwaites glacier which is also called “glacier at the end of the world” is located in Antarctica. If it were to melt, it would cause a marked rise in…
Why has the sky turned intensely pink in Antarctica?
Scientists based in Antarctica were surprised and very impressed by the almost supernatural colors of the sky around their base in Antarctica, in the middle of the southern night. How…
Incredible images of skies turning pink in Antarctica
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Microplastic detected in snow for the first time in Antarctica
Microplastic fragments have been found for the first time in freshly fallen snow in Antarctica. Scientists from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, who collected snow samples from 19…
At the gates of Antarctica, the island of pigs hides a mystery. Michel Izard tells us.
A place away from it all. Nature in its wildest state. Effervescent and serene. A kind of paradise on Earth. It seems difficult to conceive. To imagine, even, in our…