What would you expect to find within a permanently frozen Antarctic lake? As if the name Lake Enigma wasn’t mysterious enough, polar scientists have just discovered unique microbial groups living ...

Around 2,500 miles from home and facing increasingly colder and darker conditions, life in an Antarctic research station is ...

Antarctica is known for being a rather inhospitable place, what with its extreme cold, violent winds, and low levels of water – it is technically a desert. Much of continent also sits at high altitude ...

‘Some can’t handle the isolation, the extreme weather, the perspective you lose when you can’t judge distances in the whiteness’: The Sanae IV research station in Antarctica - South Africa National ...

The search for a long-lost Antarctic ship has unexpectedly opened a window into a hidden ecosystem, revealing a dense community of life thriving in waters once assumed to be almost barren. What began ...

Ice cores are like frozen time capsules that could tell a lot about Earth's past. Researchers drill deep into the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets to retrieve ice cores and study past climate.

During Earth's ancient Snowball periods, when the entire planet was wrapped in ice, life may have endured in tiny meltwater ponds on the surface of equatorial glaciers. MIT researchers discovered that ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. The species, named in honor of the recently ...

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