Marilyn Perkins
-
'Doomsday glacier' won't collapse the way we thought, new study suggests -
High winds paint puzzling ice streaks across the sea in AntarcticaEarth from space A 2021 satellite photo captured rare, wispy streaks of ice stretching across an ocean channel separating the Ronne Ice Shelf and a patch of multi-year sea ice in Antarctica.
Earth from space -
1st map of Antarctica's green space unveiled. Here's what it shows. -
Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic iceThe unusual patterns, found beneath West Antarctica's Doston Ice Shelf, could help scientists to better understand how glaciers erode.
-
Giant river system that existed 40 million years ago discovered deep below Antarctic ice"There was this gigantic river system": Researchers find ancient lost world deep beneath Antarctic ice.
-
Blood Falls: Antarctica's crimson waterfall forged from an ancient hidden heartIron-rich waters buried beneath Taylor Glacier in East Antarctica are sporadically released in what looks like a bloody mess — but the so-called Blood Falls aren't as gruesome as they first appear and sound.
-
Antarctic ice hole the size of Switzerland keeps cracking open. Now scientists finally know why.The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists finally know why.
-
'We were in disbelief': Antarctica is behaving in a way we've never seen before. Can it recover?Feature Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back.
Feature -
Hundreds of emperor penguin chicks spotted plunging off a 50-foot cliff in 1st-of-its-kind footageThe fledglings are typically reared on floating platforms of sea ice, but an unprecedented decline in the ice extent has driven young onto cliffs.
