The making of Antarctica's hidden fjords
Antarctica's topography began changing from flat to fjord-filled starting about 34 million years ago, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-led team of geoscientists.
Antarctica's topography began changing from flat to fjord-filled starting about 34 million years ago, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-led team of geoscientists.
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2013
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Britain and the United States on Monday launched a research programme billed "the most detailed and extensive examinations of a massive Antarctic glacier ever undertaken" to gauge how quickly it could collapse.
Earth Sciences
Apr 30, 2018
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Do you love to lose yourself in little things? To read every footnote of a book, watch ants in a patch of grass, memorise every mole on a lover's skin?
Earth Sciences
Aug 20, 2015
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Trekking across the high Canadian Arctic almost 20 years ago, Howie Scher had an unexpected encounter that helped fix the course of his career.
Earth Sciences
Aug 25, 2015
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Scientists are exploring a new method to uncover changes occurring in the mysterious East Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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Australia said Monday it was hopeful of winning support for its plan to create a vast marine reserve off Antarctica, after revising the proposal to make it smaller.
Environment
Oct 20, 2014
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Bella Duncan is researching Antarctica's past climate between 25 million and four million years ago, which includes the Miocene and Pliocene geological epochs.
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2014
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The tip of South Africa, Tasmania and most of New Zealand will -- weather permitting -- enjoy a partial eclipse of the Sun on Friday although the handful of hardy scientists in Antarctica will get the best view, according ...
Space Exploration
Nov 24, 2011
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In an effort to determine if conditions were ever right on Mars to sustain life, a team of scientists, including a Michigan State University professor, has examined a meteorite that formed on the red planet more than a billion ...
Space Exploration
May 1, 2013
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Research led by a Stirling academic has revealed how glaciers disappeared from Scotland at the end of the last Ice Age.
Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2017
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