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As expected, a behemothic iceberg roughly twice the size of New York City has broken off in Antarctica. As NASA Earth Observatory made clear earlier this week, however, this isn’t actually a cause for concern. In fact, as British Antarctic Survey glaciologist Dominic Hodgson said, there is no link between this iceberg and the ongoing (and […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets The North Face has reintroduced its widely celebrated Trans-Antarctica capsule, which still stands as one of the outdoor brand’s […]
A massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica on Friday, CNN reports. A 490 square mile block of ice— bigger than New York City—broke free from the Brunt Ice Shelf near a British scientific outpost. According to a statement from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the ice was separated through a process called “calving.” Calving can be caused by crevasses […]
Scientists who accidentally came across bizarre life forms on a boulder way beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves are surprised (and puzzled) by their incidental discovery. The find, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday, came about as researchers drilled through nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the southeastern Weddell Sea (the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf) when they saw […]
While most of the snow in Antarctica is white, snow found on its coast can be green—and as global temperatures rise, more green snow has been found across the continent. Small amounts of green snow have always been visible in Antarctica, which is caused by microscopic algae blooming on top of the snow, according to a […]
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