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Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

For a long time, scientists knew of a “gravity hole” beneath Antarctica—an area with particularly weak gravitational force. Considering the various threats currently faced by the region, scientists ...

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They call themselves "military penguins" and belong to a small group from Ukraine's Antarctic research facility who have returned home to fight against Russia's invasion. RFE/RL speaks to Yuriy ...

New study shows melting Antarctic ice adds only a small amount of iron to the ocean. Most iron comes from deep water and sea floor sediments.

The McMurdo docking pier, (built as the barge NSF DIscovery Pier) constructed by Gunderson Marine & Iron (GM&I) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, has successfully arrived at McMurdo Station, ...

TradeWinds Towing, New Orleans, has completed a 69-day, 9,200-mile ocean tow from Portland, Ore., to McMurdo Station, ...

Sampling rosette with gray sampling bottles at left, the ship’s rail at lower right, and the face of the ice shelf in the background. Credit: Robert Sherrell Scientists testing a popular climate ...

Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed. By Eric Niiler Prospectors are scouring the Pacific Ocean ...

Sleeper sharks live extraordinarily long lives and can thrive in near-freezing ocean temperatures near Earth's poles. Scientists with the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre captured footage of a ...