by faster | Mar 19, 2022 | Blog
DATE: March 18, 2022 SOURCE: Washington Post SNIP: The coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of warm weather this week unlike any ever observed, with temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet soaring 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The...
by faster | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: Feb 26, 2021 SNIP: A large iceberg about 20 times the size of Manhattan broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea section of Antarctica during the past day, following the buildup of a large crack in the floating ice during the past...
by faster | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: ABC News (Australia) DATE: July 16, 2020 SNIP: Antarctica is one of the most untouched and remote regions left on the planet, but new research shows that it’s not as untouched as we thought it was. In the study published today in Nature, researchers...
by faster | May 28, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: May 28, 2020 SNIP: Climate researchers racing to calculate how fast and how high the sea level will rise found new clues on the seafloor around Antarctica. A study released today suggests that some of the continent’s floating...
by faster | Mar 23, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC DATE: March 23, 2020 SNIP: East Antarctic’s Denman Canyon is the deepest land gorge on Earth, reaching 3,500m below sea-level. It’s also filled top to bottom with ice, which US space agency (Nasa) scientists reveal in a new report has a...