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A discovery under 2 miles of ice in Antarctica could help solve a geological mystery millions of years old

Buried beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice, a newly discovered fan-shaped geological structure is changing how scientists understand Earth’s hidden history. The East Antarctic Fan-Shaped Basin Province reveals ancient tectonic movements, Gondwana breakup clues, and possible links to today’s glacier behavior. This discovery proves Antarctica is not just frozen…

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The Total Freeze-Out: Inside the 24,278ft Antarctic Mountain Range Stripping Ex-Prince Andrew's Royal Title

The Prince Andrew Plateau in Antarctica may be renamed due to scandals surrounding Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, reflecting his fall from grace. New Zealand authorities are considering the change.

International Business Times UK

Antarctica is in the middle of winter right now. Scientists are worried about a France-sized stretch of ocean where ice is failing to form

Winter is the season when Antarctica's frozen edge usually expands. This year, one part of the continent is doing the opposite. Scientists have identified a vast stretch of ocean that remains largely ice-free despite being deep into the Antarctic winter, while temperatures in parts of the region recently climbed more…

The Economic Times

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A bonanza for fans of the natural world: the digital library sharing 64m pages of scientific knowledge with everyone

The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt

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'Sobering': flu strain kills thousands of seal pups

A devastating strain of bird flu has wiped out more than 75 per cent of the southern elephant seal pup population on a remote sub-Antarctic island.

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More than 13,000 seal pups die on remote Australian island amid bird flu outbreak

Testing confirms spread of deadly H5N1 virus on the subantarctic Heard Island, about 4,000km south-west of Perth

The Guardian - AU

The continent that keeps the dead: Antarctica’s most disturbing unsolved disappearances and frozen expedition mysteries

Antarctica tends to be described in numbers first. Temperatures that fall far below what most instruments are built for, wind that can strip visibility down to nothing, distances that flatten judgment. It is also a place where people still go to work, to measure ice, to run stations, to move…

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The Antarctic bacterium that could be key to new cancer treatments

Antarctica’s isolation has led to highly specialised organisms, scientists say

The Independent UK

Levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in dolphins and whales are rising globally

Whales and dolphins inhabit some of the largest and seemingly most pristine environments on Earth, from tropical coastlines to Antarctic waters. Yet even they cannot escape PFAS – persistent “forever chemicals” that leak from our homes, factories and waterways into the sea.

The Conversation

56 million dead, one frozen secret: Antarctica outed the deadliest secret in human history

Antarctic ice cores climate change: Scientists found ancient air trapped in Antarctic ice. This ice holds records of Earth's atmosphere for thousands of years. It shows volcanic events and human activities like mining. A significant drop in carbon dioxide levels is linked to the devastating impact of European colonization on…

The Economic Times

A Texas-size chunk of winter sea ice is missing from Antarctica — and it's probably not coming back

An area of ice nearly the size of Texas has failed to form over the Bellingshausen Sea, off western Antarctica, as researchers investigate the links between sea ice loss and global warming.

LiveScience

80,000-year-old Antarctic ice reveals radioactive stardust still falling on Earth. Is it dangerous?

Scientists have detected iron-60, a radioactive isotope from ancient supernova explosions, in Antarctic ice up to 80,000 years old. This discovery indicates that Earth is still being showered by debris from stellar explosions that occurred millions of years ago. The findings suggest our planet is traveling through a cloud of…

The Economic Times

This Photographer Captured 42 Dreamlike Images Of Antarctica

Antarctica is one of those places that already feels almost unreal, but through the lens of photographer Daniel Kordan, its frozen landscapes become even more cinematic. Towering icebergs, quiet waters, snow-covered peaks, and endless shades of blue create a setting that looks untouched by time. Add a schooner with striking…

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Hundreds of hidden earthquakes discovered beneath Antarctica — and they're happening in a very odd location

Antarctica was long thought to be seismically calm, but new technology makes it possible to detect unexpected types of earthquakes beneath the ice.

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‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area

Euronews

‘A huge anomaly’: Antarctica records winter temperatures 20C warmer than normal

The new heat record comes amid a prolonged heatwave that has seen maximum daily temperatures above zero degrees for three consecutive weeks.

The Guardian - AU

Antarctica’s west coast missing an area of sea ice the size of France as temperatures peak 20C above average

A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’

The Guardian - UK

Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown

Temperatures above 15C ‘very strange’ say scientists, as snow melts and rain falls on glaciers in usually frozen region

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France moves closer to ocean goals with three new marine protection zones

The French government has announced three new marine protected areas, bringing it a step closer to goals established at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Summit. These "strong protection" zones are situated in mainland France, in the French West Indies and the French Southern and Antarctic Lands.

The Conversation

How waves, ponds and green algae are accelerating sea ice melt in Antarctica

Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, home to penguins in the south of the globe or polar bears in the north.

International Business Times UK

Resident Evil: Code Veronica Release Date, Features, Characters, Gameplay and Everything We Know So Far

Capcom has confirmed a full remake of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, now titled Resident Evil: Veronica, for release in 2027.

The Conversation

Extreme weather is making Antarctic research harder, but new technology is providing some answers – new study

When you think of Antarctica, you might imagine a stark, other-worldly continent of endless, white ice. The only sound being the wind, punctuated by the crack of a glacier calving in the distance.

LiveScience

The 'Doomsday Glacier' is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels

Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf. We spoke to marine geophysicist Robert Larter about what this means for the "Doomsday Glacier."

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'Poised to disintegrate': Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' is set to lose its ice shelf this year

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice mass and threatening to unleash devastating sea-level rises.

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Scientists found stardust trapped in Antarctic ice. What could it tell us about our solar system?

"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth."

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