Tag: Antarcticas
Scientists are raising the alarm about Antarctica’s shrinking sea ice
full screen Antarctic sea ice is shrinking and is at a record low for the year. Archive image. Photo: Tore Meek/Ntb/TT The sea ice around Antarctica is decreasing and is…
Antarctica’s glaciers haven’t melted so fast in millennia
France is about to experience a heat wave – a feather of heat, say the experts – which promises to be record. Probably an effect of anthropogenic global warming. And…
Antarctica’s past is written at the bottom of this lake
How much longer will Antarctica keep its secrets? Maybe not much longer. Indeed, researchers have just discovered, hidden under the ice, an immense lake which could help them rewrite the…
Antarctica’s long history hides at the bottom of this lake
How much longer will Antarctica keep its secrets? Maybe not much longer. Indeed, researchers have just discovered, hidden under the ice, an immense lake which could help them rewrite the…
Antarctica’s past under the eye of satellites
The Goce satellite, launched in 2009, has become a vital tool in the geological study of Antarctica. Thanks to the data obtained by the device, the geologists were thus able…