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Working in the Antarctic can be bad enough without someone spoiling your book endings and insulting you over vodka. One Russian explorer stabbed another at a remote polar outpost, and media is abuzz with rumors and opinions. Antarctic cold, months-long shifts, a small group of people and liters of vodka – with conditions like that, […]
There is a significant source of volcanic heat deep under the fast-melting Pine Island Ice Shelf in Western Antarctica, researchers found, after stumbling on the evidence while studying heat transfer in the icy continent’s oceans. The Pine Island glacier is one of the biggest ice flows in Antarctica and is also among the most affected […]
The “Blue Planet II” production team’s submersible sprung a leak when they were almost 1,500 feet deep in Antarctic waters. Fortunately, they were able to discover the cause and to conduct repairs underwater. Pushing the envelope is necessary to discover something new and show unseen parts of the world, according to one of the show’s […]
Over the holidays, an Antarctic expedition is traveling 500 miles to map ice sheet thickness and sea level rise. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a307b4215e73c599bf9543b/master/pass/cold-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Roger Pimenta The ashes of Polar Explorer Henry Worsley were buried near Sir Ernest Shackleton’s grave Here his widow Joanna reveals why it was the perfect place to say goodbye. The cemetery at Grytviken is a desolate place, far from civilisation and battered remorselessly by the elements. Here in the South Atlantic, among the graves […]
Rapid collapse of Antarctic glaciers could flood coastal cities by the end of this century. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a1f4e7f0cb1f52c24d06716/master/pass/glacier-TAFA.jpg Feed: All Latest
For the first time in Antarctic history, a team will try to restart equipment and generators that have been sitting at -67°F. It might not work. https://media.wired.com/photos/59fbac322212335b39983f67/master/pass/british-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
An alien evil stalks a group of survivors in the wintry expanse of Antarctica, threatening to overwhelm their defenses as hunger and the elements wear them down. This isn’t The Thing; it’s Distrust, a new isometric survival game inspired by John Carpenter’s sci-fi horror classic. But rather than the threat of assimilation, you’ll need to […]
From the US’s first total solar eclipse in 40 years to a maniac riding a giant slice of pizza off an iceberg (in his underwear), here’s your wrap of the week’s essential adventure news. Edinburgh University researchers have uncovered “the largest volcanic region on earth”, just 1.2 miles below the west Antarctic ice sheet. The […]
Published time: 1 Jun, 2017 17:03 The massive crack in the Antarctic’s Larsen C Ice Shelf – one of the continent’s biggest floating ice platforms – is growing at such a dramatic rate that it will soon break free and create one of the largest icebergs ever recorded. Project MIDAS researchers, a group of scientists […]
