Category: Antarctica

Antarctica is the coldest, driest, and windiest continent on Earth. It is home to some of the most extreme and unique environments in the world. Antarctica is the fifth largest continent in the world, and is located in the Southern Hemisphere, south of the Antarctic Circle. It is surrounded by the Southern Ocean and is almost completely covered in ice.

Antarctica is home to many unique species of wildlife, including penguins, seals, whales, and seab

↪ ‘Last chance for humanity’: the cold reality of monitoring global heating on a glacier 2 years ago
↪ Ian Bullock obituary 2 years ago
↪ ‘A dream experiment’: our Australian icebreaker is on a crucial mission to Antarctica | Nathan Bindoff 2 years ago
↪ Pete Wilkinson obituary 2 years ago
↪ World’s largest iceberg drifts threateningly toward remote island of penguins and seals 2 years ago
↪ ‘Very bad precedent’: China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica 2 years ago
↪ Antarctic plant cover growing at dramatic rate as climate heats 2 years ago
↪ Antarctica is ‘greening’ at dramatic rate as climate heats 2 years ago
↪ ‘I had found gold before, but not like this’: four of the most splendid treasures salvaged from shipwrecks 2 years ago
↪ ‘Two incredible extreme events’: Antarctic sea ice on cusp of record winter low for second year running 2 years ago