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The Antarctic (pronounced /ænˈtɑrktɪk/) is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence. The region covers some 20% of the Southern Hemisphere, of which 5.5% (14 million km2) is the surface area of the continent itself.

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Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

Antarctica glacier retreat creates new carbon dioxide store

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 14 hours ago | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Large blooms of tiny marine plants called phytoplankton are flourishing in areas of open water left exposed by the recent and rapid melting of ice shelves and glaciers around the Antarctic Peninsula. This ...


Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...


Researchers to study hidden lakes beneath West Antarctic ice sheet

Researchers to study hidden lakes beneath West Antarctic ice sheet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Santa Cruz researchers are among the leaders of a major Antarctic research project in which scientists will drill through a half-mile of ice to penetrate subglacial Lake Whillans and study ...


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West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought

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created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 4

New ground measurements made by the West Antarctic GPS Network (WAGN) project, composed of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin, The Ohio State University, and The University of Memphis, suggest ...


NASA flies to Antarctica for largest airborne polar ice survey

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA begins a series of flights Oct. 15 to study changes to Antarctica's sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The flights are part of Operation Ice Bridge, a six-year campaign that is the largest airborne survey ever made of ...


Albatross camera reveals fascinating feeding interaction with killer whale

Albatross camera reveals fascinating feeding interaction with killer whale

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Scientists from British Antarctic Survey, National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, and Hokkaido University, Japan, have recorded the first observations of how albatrosses feed alongside marine mammals ...


Laser technique has implications for detecting microbial life forms in Martian ice

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

An innovative technique called L.I.F.E. imaging used successfully to detect bacteria in frozen Antarctic lakes could have exciting implications for demonstrating signs of life in the polar regions of Mars, according to an ...


Lasers from space show thinning of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The most comprehensive picture of the rapidly thinning glaciers along the coastline of both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets has been created using satellite lasers. The findings are an important step forward in the ...


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New CO2 data helps unlock the secrets of Antarctic formation

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (13) | comments 6

The link between declining CO2 levels in the earth's atmosphere and the formation of the Antarctic ice caps some 34 million years ago has been confirmed for the first time in a major research study.


CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice

CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas ...


Astronomers find coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 19

The search for the best observatory site in the world has lead to the discovery of what is thought to be the coldest, driest, calmest place on Earth. No human is thought to have ever been there but it is expected to yield ...


Computer model documents the history of the West Antarctic ice sheet

Computer model documents the history of the West Antarctic ice sheet

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- One major threat of planetary warming is the melting of the great polar ice sheets, and the resulting rise in global sea level. Particularly worrisome to researchers is the fragility of the ...


New predictions for sea level rise

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (25) | comments 12

Fossil coral data and temperature records derived from ice-core measurements have been used to place better constraints on future sea level rise, and to test sea level projections.


Genes that let creepy-crawlies survive a deep freeze

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Arctic springtails (Megaphorura arctica) survive freezing temperatures by dehydrating themselves before the coldest weather sets in. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have identified a suite of ge ...


New research provides insight into ice sheet behavior

New research provides insight into ice sheet behavior

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study published this week takes scientists a step further in their quest to understand how Antarctica's vast glaciers will contribute to future sea-level rise. Reporting in the journal ...