A gigantic cavity – two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 1,000 feet (300 meters) tall – growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several dist... Read more
UCLA geochemist finds striking similarities between climate change patterns today and millions of years ago In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer and ocean levels w... Read more
On a glacier-filled island with fjords and elephant seals, Russia has built Antarctica’s first Orthodox church on a hill overlooking its research base, transporting the logs all the way from... Read more
Splash. A Weddell seal weighing almost 500 kilograms lands inside the tent and blocks the hole laboriously sawn out by researchers in the two-meter-thick ice to launch drones under the sea i... Read more
A newly launched satellite will reveal even more about the planet’s workings than originally planned
Monitoring Earth: Gaia’s breath THE ten-and-a-half minutes it took a Delta 2 rocket to lift OCO-2 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to a parking orbit 190km above Earth on July 2n... Read more
Russia has vetoed a proposal for the huge marine reserve Ambitious plans to protect millions of square kilometers of Antarctic seas have been sunk by a surprise legal objection from Russian... Read more
The bright green goop is the very bottom of the ocean food chain. It’s also the latest delicacy. What disturbed chef Angel León most about Spanish fishermen was all the unwanted species they... Read more