Antarctic midge survives extreme cold with unique dormancy strategies
Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...
Arctic Sea Ice8h
The impact of sea ice on global temperature trends
A new study focuses on improving global temperature data sets in light of uneven warming across the globe. To fill gaps in ...
El País in English18h
Massive methane leaks detected in Antarctica, posing potential risks for global warming
A Spanish scientific expedition has discovered columns of gas emerging from the seabed. Geologists also warn about the ...
Scripps News14h
FAQ: Climate Change in the Polar Regions
with the Arctic ocean and air temperatures rising twice as much as elsewhere. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are both losing net mass to the ocean, mostly through increased melting from the ...
How Antarctica’s only native insect could hold secrets to deep space travel
Antarctica’s only native insect could provide inspiration for how humans could travel into deep space. The tiny midge called ...
Antarctic research has long been hamstrung by reliance on one icebreaker and sporadic funding. That might be about to change
Australia’s Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have headed to one of our three bases – Mawson, Davis and Casey – as well as the ...