A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

Blue puddles of water were visible atop the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica after periods of record melting. Satellite data from early 2025 revealed extensive melting at Antarctica’s Amery Ice ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Why is a remote glacier in Antarctica that contains enough water to raise global sea levels by 1.5 metres melting twice as fast on ...

Recently, Russian scientists claimed that the universe’s largest oil and gas reserves were discovered in the British Antarctic Territory. This discovery has significantly impacted geopolitics, the ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

The phenomenon occurs because the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere is tilted toward the sun as the planet rotates around it, and Antarctica is ... He said the flat-Earth map that he used, called ...

In total, 145 countries from seven continents — including Antarctica — have featured ... the result of a distortion in the so-called Mercator projection — the most widely used version of the ...

Ben Galton-Fenzi is employed by the Australian Antarctic DIvision. Bishakhdatta Gayen is employed by the University of Melbourne. He receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame? When you purchase through links on ...

Photo by Hilary Dugan Antarctica is like no other place on Earth. The continent has been locked in glaciers for 34 million years, with a mere 1% of the land surface free of ice sheets. “It’s Earth’s ...