A small robotic float slipped under the Antarctic ice, vanished from contact for eight months, and then resurfaced with a ...
A small robotic float, lost for nearly nine months beneath Antarctica’s thick ice, has unexpectedly resurfaced—carrying ...
And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...
A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive ...
Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Antarctica is home to around 20 million breeding pairs of penguins, like these Adelie penguins ...
Geologically, Antarctica isn't easy to study. Nearly all of it (98 percent) is covered by ice, with an average depth of 1.1 miles.. This has certain obvious impacts on our ability to measure anything ...
In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...
New evidence suggests that West Antarctica - which holds around 5 METERS of sea level rise - is melting a lot faster than scientists once thought. Weathered is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...