Polynyas typically occur in sea ice located in the coastal areas of Antarctica every year, but it is unusual for them to form hundreds of miles away in the open ocean where the sea is thousands of ...
Scientists have unraveled the causes of a strange phenomenon in Antarctica: a massive hole in the sea ice, as large as Switzerland ... They discovered that particular oceanic conditions were ...
Scientists have solved the mystery behind the appearance of an Antarctic hole twice ... surface. In Antarctica, the surface of the ocean freezes over in the winter, with sea ice covering an ...
“The change in wind pattern such as the extremely deep Amundsen Sea Low and its eastward ... contributed to the record low ice conditions in Antarctica. In particular, cyclones have slowed ...
The European Space agency Copernicus Sentinel satellite detected a giant hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, as part of the EU's Environmental monitoring program. The hole which scientists ...
The mystery behind a strange, unexplained object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea – which many suspected was a UFO – may have finally been solved. The object is thought to be over 140,000 years ...
Adding to the mystery of the ... found that the Baltic Sea anomaly is the remains of a process of glacial movements that took place in that area of the ocean in the Ice Age period and could ...
a new study reveals that the reduction in sea ice might be creating heavier snowfall in the region! Antarctica's ice sheet, like Greenland, comprises a massive reservoir of freshwater. The primary ...
2024 — Scientists have found that the record-low levels of sea ice around Antarctica in 2023 were extremely unlikely to happen without the influence of climate change. This low was a one-in-a ...
Between December 2022 and March 2023, the team traveled to Antarctica four ... whole range of other deep-sea creatures – more than 80 different species, including giant volcano sponges ...
June 4, 2024 — Giant viruses found on the Greenland ice sheet probably regulate the growth of snow algae on the ice by infecting them. Knowing how to control these viruses could help us reduce ...