When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

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Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising ... giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the waves — all suddenly unearthed when a glacier broke free during ...

Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland ... worth of data collected by researchers all over the world. It's made up of over ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting ... the continent now highlights how climate change in the most remote places impacts us all.

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

When an iceberg the size of Chicago broke off from one of Antarctica's massive floating ... that had been covered by almost 500 feet of ice for centuries. Less than two weeks later, they were ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise ... change in the most remote places impacts us all.April 4, 2025 ...