Shark spotted in Antarctica for 1st time ever. See video.
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Antarctic Peninsula projections show accelerating ice loss, warming oceans and global sea level impacts tied to greenhouse gas emissions.
The climate crisis is warming Antarctica fast, with potentially disastrous consequences. Now scientists have modeled the best- and worst-case scenarios for climate change in Antarctica, demonstrating just how high the stakes are—but also how much harm can still be prevented.
A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to us.
Early on Tuesday, Feb. 26, a rare annular solar eclipse created a “ring of fire” over Antarctica, while South Africa and Indian Ocean locations saw partial phases.
The Blood Falls in Antarctica are a unique feature found at the nose of the Taylor Glacier, a large river of ice that flows through the McMurdo Dry Valleys of eastern Antarctica. The unusual phenomenon was first discovered in 1911 by Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor during the Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica.
Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological mystery.
The geoid (the surface of equal gravitational potential of a hypothetical ocean at rest) serves as the classical reference for all topographical features. This particular geoid was constructed by ESA’s steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission. Credit: ESA.
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See the moon's shadow darken Antarctica in epic satellite imagery of the Feb. 17 solar eclipse (video)
Plus NOAA's GOES-19 satellite spies the lunar disk crossing the face of our parent star.
A video is spreading on social media with claims that Elon Musk's Starlink internet service enabled a livestreamer to show Antarctica's "legendary 'ice wall'" -- a reference to the debunked