maps of Antarctica were just plain bad. “Up until now, we’ve had a better map of Mars than we’ve had of Antarctica,” Howat, a professor of Earth sciences and director of the Byrd Polar and ...

The first antarctic expedition ... Nares appears on the map near the upper right-hand corner_ During the last quarter of the nineteenth century, with the waning of the whaling industry in the ...

Antarctica Special Report See how scientists on Antarctica’s icy surface are tracking the continent’s meltdown, which could raise sea levels dramatically and cause a global crisis. Also, visit ...

Most of this extra snow has fallen on the Antarctic Peninsula, which saw significant increases in temperature during the 20th Century ... Satellites routinely map Antarctica, but their data ...

of sea-level increase before the end of the century. A more-recent study suggests that increased snowfall on the eastern end of Antarctica—another result of climate change—may offset that a ...

A century ago, January 2, 1904, Argentina officially took over the running of the Meteorological and Magnetic Observatory established by the Scottish Antarctic Expedition in the South Orkneys.

UK scientists have created the first wide-area maps of microscopic ... blooms as the Antarctic warms. Temperatures on the peninsula rose rapidly in the latter half of the 20th Century, and climate ...

At this time of year, as the sun rises over Antarctica, a “hole” opens ... Far from being a “solved” 20th-century problem, ozone remains an important issue, albeit in new and previously ...

During the Twentieth Century, Antarctic Peninsula temperatures increased by up to 0.5⁰ C per decade, helping to trigger the dramatic collapse of ice shelves and causing many glaciers to retreat.

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The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world's largest feeding ground for baleen whales—species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century ...

At this time of year, as the sun rises over Antarctica, a "hole" opens up in ... Far from being a "solved" 20th-century problem, ozone remains an important issue, albeit in new and previously ...