Ice Shelf Collapses in Antarctica National Geographic - June 17, 2008
Ice dam to break prematurely on Argentine glacier PhysOrg - July 8, 2008
A single boulder may prove that Antarctica and North America were once connected PhysOrg - July 17, 2008
A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica
may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost
continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago.
Ice Adrift From Warming Scrapes Antarctic Seabed Bare National Geographic - July 17, 2008
Antarctic Ice Shelf All But Lost Live Science - July 10, 2008
Antarctica 'warm as Africa' 100m years ago Telegraph.co.uk - June 19, 2008
Ice Shelf Collapses in Antarctica National Geographic - June 17, 2008
Ancient Mammal Relative Dug Burrows in Antarctica? National Geographic - June 10, 2008
Fossilized Burrows 245 Million Years Old Suggest Lizard-like Creatures In Antarctica Science Daily - June 9, 2008
New Early Triassic mammal-like reptile, Thrinaxodon, Fossils Suggest
Ancient Cat-sized Reptiles in Antarctica Live Science - June 8, 2008
New Early Triassic mammal-like reptile, Thrinaxodon, Fossils Suggest Ancient Cat-sized Reptiles in Antarctica Live Science - June 8, 2008
Antarctic Ice Causes Glacial 'Earthquakes' Live Science - June 7, 2008
These ice-driven seismic waves had the force of a magnitude 7 earthquake.
"Brittle Star City" Found on Antarctic Seamount National Geographic - May 20, 2008
Giant, Unknown Animals Found off Antarctica National Geographic - March 29, 2008
"Mountains of the Moon" Glaciers Melting in Africa National Geographic - March 26, 2008
Giant Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses National Geographic - March 26, 2008
A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan
suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk.
Video: Antarctica Ice Collapses National Geographic - March 27, 2008
Huge Iceberg Splits In Southern Atlantic Ocean Science Daily - March 17, 2008
West Antarctic Glaciers Melting At 20 Times Former Rate, Rock Analysis Shows Science Daily - March 3, 2008
Under-Ice Volcano Eruption Spewed Ash Over Antarctica National Geographic - January 21, 2008
Ancient Antarctic eruption noted BBC - January 21, 2008
Scientists have found what they say is the first evidence
of a volcanic eruption under the Antarctic ice sheet.
New Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica Live Science - December 11, 2007
NASA Unveils New Hi-Def Map of Antarctica Live Science - November 27, 2007
White Continent in its full glory BBC - November 27, 2007
Antarctic Icebergs Teeming With Life, Study Says National Geographic - June 22, 2007
Bizarre New Deep-Sea Creatures Found Off Antarctica National Geographic - May 17, 2007
Antarctic 'treasure trove' found BBC - May 17, 2007
From beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea, scientists retrieve pristine record of the continent's climate cycles PhysOrg - April 16, 2007
Strange New Creatures Found in Antarctica (images included) Live Science - February 26, 2007
Antarctic marine explorers reveal first biological changes after collapse of polar ice shelves PhysOrg - February 26, 2007
Chain of Cascading Lakes Discovered Under Antarctica
National Geographic - February 16, 2007 Antarctic water world uncovered BBC - February 15, 2007
Giant "blisters" containing water that rapidly expand and
contract have been mapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.
Baby Dinosaur Buried by Volcano Live Science - December 11, 2006
A massive volcanic blast may have killed and preserved a baby dinosaur,
whose skeleton, one of the most complete example of its kind ever found,
was recovered from the frozen ground of Antarctica.
Baby plesiosaur bones found in Antarctic China View - December 13, 2006
Alaskan storm cracks giant iceberg to pieces in faraway Antarctica PhysOrg - October 2, 2006
Mother-of-pearl clouds float over Antarctica National Geographic - August 1, 2006
'Warm' species invading Antarctic BBC - June 24, 2006
Scientists are calling for action to prevent foreign species from taking
hold in Antarctica and wrecking the continent's unique ecosystems.
Giant Crater Found: Tied to Worst Mass Extinction Ever Space.com - June 2, 2006
Largest Ever Killer Crater Found Under Ice in Antarctica PhysOrg - June 2, 2006
Size comparison of large craters of the solar system
Under-Ice Lakes in Antarctica Linked by Buried Channels National Geographic - April 20, 2006
Buried under Antarctica's miles-thick ice sheet, more
than a hundred lakes are dotted around the continent.
Now, for the first time, scientists are connecting the dots.
Secret rivers found in Antarctic BBC - April 20, 2006
Scientists have found huge, powerful rivers that may
connect subglacial lakes deep under the Antarctic ice.
Antarctic glaciers show retreat BBC - April 2005
Pile-up as berg hits Antarctica BBC - April 2005
Researchers Find Moon Rock in Antarctica Space.com - December 2004
New Martian Meteorite Found In Antarctica Science Daily - July 2004
New Map Reveals Hidden Features Of Ice-buried Antarctic Lake Science Daily - July 2004
Two Distinct Ecosystems May Exist
Lake under Antarctica ice may be divided MSNBC
Active Volcano in Antarctic Sound Discovered
May 10, 2004 - AP
A previously unknown underwater volcano has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica, the National Science Foundation said. The finding helps explain mariners' historical reports of discolored water in the area, the agency said. Material from underwater volcanoes is known to cause discoloration in water over them. While large areas were colonized by submarine life, none was found on dark rock around the volcano itself, indicating that lava had flowed fairly recently. In addition, dredges recovered abundant fresh basalt, a volcanic rock. It normally would be rapidly acted upon and transformed by seawater. Highly sensitive temperature probes moving continuously across the bottom of the volcano showed signs of geothermal heating of seawater, according to the agency. The volcano stands 2,300 feet above the seafloor and extends to within roughly 900 feet of the ocean surface. It is in an area known as Antarctic Sound, at the northernmost tip of Antarctica. There is no previous scientific record of active volcanoes in the region where the new peak was discovered. The volcano is located on the continental shelf, in the vicinity of a deep trough carved out by glaciers passing across the seafloor.
Opportunity Finds Mars Rock Similar to Meteorite on Earth in Antarctica Space.com - April 2004
A rock in Mars' Meridiani Planum shares a mineral "fingerprint"
not with other Mars rocks that probes have seen, but with
a meteorite that smashed into Antarctica millennia ago.
Antarctica's ice sheet melting naturally January 2003 - BBC
Antarctic - Lake Vida's secret water December 2002 - BBC
Researchers Uncover Extreme Lake - And 3000-Year-Old Microbes -
In Mars-Like Antarctic Environment December 2002 - BBC
Lake Vida may represent a previously unknown ecosystem,
a frigid, "ice-sealed," lake that contains the thickest non-glacial
lake ice cover on Earth and water seven times saltier than seawater.
Antarctic ice fringe 'melting faster' - June 2002 BBC
Rubbish menaces Antarctic species April 2002 - BBC
New images of iceberg breakaway BBC - March 2002
Hide-and-seek in Antarctic seas BBC - March 2002
After weeks of playing hide-and-seek in polar pack ice, the
Australian research ship Aurora Australis has successfully
retrieved scientific instruments lying for more than a year
deep in the seas off Antarctica's coast.
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