The largest terrestrial animal native to Antarctica is the tiny springtail, also known as the snow-flea. A dozen of them would fit on your fingernail. The greater Antarctic region also encompasses the ...

This is followed by an expedition of about 12 months. Staff are employed as meteorologists and technical officers. Our roles support the scientific work of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).

Other monthly images show sea ice concentration and anomalies and trends in concentration. The monthly extent images show the expanse covered by ice at greater than 15 percent monthly mean ...

The British Antarctic Survey reports that the massive iceberg originally broke free from Antarctica’s ice shelf in 1986 but only began moving toward the island in 2020. NOAA’s GOES East satellite ...

A Leeds woman is among a group of five who are counting penguins on a remote Antarctic island. The world's biggest iceberg is drifting towards the Atlantic Ocean after being stuck near Antarctica.

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Where no observation is available within the last 75 minutes, the latest observation is shown in italics and coloured and removed from the table after 30 hours. Station names link to data for the ...

On March 1, Antarctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent of 1.98 million square kilometers (764,000 square miles), tying for second lowest extent with 2022 and 2024 in the 47-year satellite ...

One day, he retrieved a copy of “The Heart of the Antarctic,” Shackleton’s account of his gallant but doomed attempt, in 1907-09, to reach the South Pole. (The journey was known as the ...

The discharge of rivers and the subsequent dispersion of their plumes play a pivotal role in the biogeochemical cycling of the Arctic Ocean. Based on the data collected during annual transects ...