Antarctica wasn't always a frozen landscape. In fact, it may have once featured lush forests, palm trees, and rivers, ...

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Ice cores collected from polar ice sheets at Site M, Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica (Lat 75.00 S, Long 15.00 E), and Holtedahlfonna, Svalbard (Lat 79.13 N, Long 13.27 E), were analyzed for a net ...

The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...

and Antarctica New Zealand to assess the environmental recovery of Vanda Station in the Dry Valleys. The study, published in Polar Record by Cambridge University Press, found that while the team ...

Using highly sensitive equipment, they measured high levels of ammonia gas, leading to cloud formation, which could be happening all over Antarctica. They published the findings in the journal ...

These mountains currently restrict the East Antarctic ice sheet as it flows from East Antarctica to low elevations in the Ross Sea." Yet there are significant questions about the past uplift ...

West Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier is melting ... Luckily, says Neff, "Snow is very porous in the dry Antarctic, so even if your tent were totally buried—it's happened to me—you can still breathe." ...

Scientists studying glaciers in West Antarctica observed a strange phenomenon dubbed "ice piracy." This occurs when one melting glacier appears to be stealing ice from its neighbor. Siphoning ice adds ...

The thick ice layers in Antarctica and on the Greenland ice sheet offer a valuable but difficult-to-interpret record of climate history and ice sheet evolution, similar to tree rings, but stretching ...

Introduction: In the extremely dry and oligotrophic soils of East Antarctica, where low temperatures and humidity result in minimal biological turnover rates, extracellular DNA (eDNA) can persist over ...