Scientists were again baffled in 2016 and 2017 when the polynya reappeared because of its vast size and distance from the coast - setting them on a hunt to uncover what was forming the hole.
Scientists first discovered the mysterious hole in the 1970s, but questions have remained about how it formed.
Scientists have solved the mystery of how a gaping hole nearly twice the size of New Jersey that formed in Antarctica's sea ice eight years ago. The rare opening of ice free water, called a ...
Scientists have solved the mystery behind the appearance of an Antarctic hole twice the size of Wales. The rare opening in the sea ice puzzled researchers when it occurred during the winters of ...
Scientists have solved the mystery behind the appearance of an Antarctic hole twice the size of Wales. The rare opening in the sea ice puzzled researchers when it occurred during the winters of ...
Every now and then for the last 50 years, an enormous hole opens up in the Antarctic sea ice. And by enormous, we mean truly enormous — the feature in question was twice the size of Wales last ...
Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers. Now, climate scientists are wondering whether it will ever come back. Look out over Antarctica in the summer, and time seems ...
As a result of the longer-lasting hole, harmful ultraviolet radiation is reaching Earth during a time when young penguins and seals are more vulnerable, scientists say Will Sullivan Daily ...
Over the last 25 years, the ozone hole which forming over Antarctica each spring has started to shrink. But over the last four years, even as the hole has shrunk it has persisted for an unusually ...
A distant exoplanet that shouldn't be there anymore has continued to mystify astronomers with its existence after new evidence disproved a leading theory for its survival. The planet, named 8 ...
The Maud Rise polynya, a sea ice hole. (NASA EAO via SWNS) By Dean Murray via SWNS Scientists have solved the mystery behind the appearance of an Antarctic hole twice the size of Wales. The rare ...