Signed in 1959 and effective since 1961, the Antarctic Treaty is a landmark international agreement that designates Antarctica as a continent dedicated to peace and science. Its purpose is to ...
We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different models for what an icehouse continent might look like. But now ...
Dr. Klages explains that the amber offers essential insights into the vegetation and ecosystem that once thrived in Antarctica’s now-frozen terrain, pointing to a time when the continent had a much ...
Antarctic krill trap vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere in the ocean floor through their sinking fecal pellets, a new study reports. The annual amount is similar to that stored by “blue ...