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Prize goes to research into neutrinos at Antarctic observatory Pioneering work tracks elusive 'cosmic messengers' 'Neutrino man' credited with opening new era of astronomy STOCKHOLM, Oct 6 (Reuters) - ...

A vast region of East Antarctica contains enough ice to cause a dramatic rise in global sea levels but was considered relatively stable before. Now, a new study is urging scientists to take a closer ...

A region of Antarctica with some of the greatest potential to reshape the natural world and human society is also the least scientifically understood and explored. A new global review paper published ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with May Lee, a 60-year-old seasonal worker in Antarctica and former marketing and communications manager at HP. She worked at the McMurdo Station in ...

Every winter, Antarctica roughly doubles in size as sea ice locks into place over the ocean. Typically, Breid Bay in East Antarctica is entirely covered in a frozen crust from July through August. But ...

Mine Antarctica is a mining experience where you attempt to scale a mountain using a pickaxe while collecting as many valuable crystals as possible. As you continue to climb the mountain, the ...

The Australian Antarctic Program’s (AAP) annual recruitment campaign opens today, presenting Australians with a life changing opportunity to live and work in Antarctica for up to 12 months. More than ...

Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, ...

Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities around the world. Today, about 1 billion people live in coastal areas; about ...

Australian scientists are sounding the alarm that vast tracts of the Antarctic are drastically understudied and could disrupt the global system if they collapsed. Research released on Wednesday by the ...

Greenland's Jakobshavn Glacier © Giles Laurent (gileslaurent.com) via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 Greenland and Antarctica have lost a shocking amount of ...