New research has pinned down why a bright red waterfall pours from Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica. The answer is not blood ...
In 1946, the United States sent the largest naval force ever assembled for Antarctica into one of the harshest environments on earth. Officially, Operation Highjump was about polar training, aerial ...
Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...