For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...

Did you know Antarctica has some of the most extreme weather on Earth? Wind speeds there can reach an incredible 327 km/h ...

“Rimmed by the formidably swift Antarctic Circumpolar Current, it is the only ocean to touch three others and to completely embrace a continent rather than being embraced by them.” While the ...

See Bird et al. Ocean sediment records indicate that the modern Antarctic Circumpolar Current did not exist prior to climatic cooling in the Late Miocene, suggesting an origin linked to the ...

"The Antarctic Circumpolar Current 'feels' the seafloor and the mountains in its path, and where it encounters barriers like ridges or seamounts, 'wiggles' are created in the water flow that form ...

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

The species has a circumpolar distribution in the Antarctic, almost exclusively between 66°S and ... while also suggesting ...

All people on Earth depend on the cryosphere. Snow, glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, and permafrost are significant reservoirs ...

Oceanographic influences included deeper mixed layers reducing diatom biomass, and a bloom to the north of the southern Antarctic Circumpolar Current Front in the western survey area thought to be ...

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