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Beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, a hidden ocean is revealing its secrets

Beneath Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf lies one of the least measured oceans on Earth – a vast, dark cavity roughly twice the volume of the North Sea.

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Save Greenland for us all with a global protectorate

Letters: Rupert Read, Andrew Boswell, Nick Brooks and Bridget McKenzie look to the Antarctic treaty to find a way forward for the high north. Plus letters from Dee Cook, Glyn Ford and others

The Guardian - UK

Penguins are bringing their breeding season forward. Why are scientists so worried?

The breeding season of the Gentoo penguin in Antarctica has leaped forward by 14 days, sparking concern amongst scientists.

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Researchers say Antarctic penguin breeding is heating up. That’s a problem

It poses a significant threat to two species facing extinction by the end of the century, a new study reveals

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Antarctic penguins have radically shifted their breeding season – seemingly in response to climate change

Changing temperatures may be behind change in behaviour, which experts fear threatens three species’ survival

The Guardian - UK

The fate of the planet’s coastlines depends on how fast Antarctica’s ice sheets melt. We don’t know what’s coming

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences

The Guardian - AU

Beneath the ice: Satellites help map Antarctica's subglacial surface like never before

Antarctica's subglacial bedrock was previously one of the least-mapped planetary surfaces in our solar system.

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The first ice core library in Antarctica to save humanity’s climate memory

On Wednesday, January 14, 2026, the coolest library on Earth was inaugurated at the Concordia station, Antarctica. Samples from glaciers rescued worldwide are now beginning to be stored there for safekeeping. This will allow, among other things, future generations to continue studying traces of past climates trapped under ice, as…

The Conversation

Ice core 'vault' preserving climate history opens in Antarctica

The Ice Memory Foundation on Wednesday opened the world’s first sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, aiming to preserve crucial records of Earth’s climate for centuries.

Radio France Internationale

Antarctic ice vault preserves Mont Blanc and global glacier samples for future science

A slice of the Mont Blanc glacier has become one of the first Alpine ice samples to be stashed away in a natural Antarctic freezer for future scientists to study.

Euronews

As global warming melts glaciers, a novel sanctuary in Antarctica is opening to preserve ice samples

Scientists have inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores in an Antarctic vault

The Independent UK

An Antarctic ‘polar thriller’ and a neurodivergent novel imagine a climate changed future

Two new Australian novels imagine how we might live in a climate‑changed future. Bri Lee’s Seed explores antinatalism in an Antarctic seed vault. And Rose Michael’s Else follows a mother and daughter improvising survival on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula.

The Conversation

People Stunned by AI's Ancient City Vision: Is Atlantis Hiding Behind the Ice Wall?

An AI-generated Instagram video claiming to show ancient city Atlantis hidden beyond Antarctica's 'ice wall' has gone viral, stunning viewers but dismissed by experts as conspiracy fiction blending flat Earth myths

International Business Times UK

Deciphering Douglas Mawson’s diaries reveals his polar opposite pursuit – exploring the Flinders Ranges

Australia’s Antarctic exploration pioneer took his polar pyjamas and wore them in the outback

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A tent, an electric stove and -40C temperatures: the chefs who cook ‘on ice’ in Antarctica

During the southernmost continent’s darkest, coldest days, scientists and researchers turn to food for comfort

The Conversation

West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geology

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning both hemispheres of the globe. The Western Hemisphere sector of the ice sheet is shaped like a hitchhiker’s thumb – an apt metaphor, because the West Antarctic ice…

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NASA launches science balloon in Antarctica | Space photo of the day for Dec. 22, 2025

The first scientific balloon flight happened on Dec. 16, 2025.

The Independent UK

In Antarctica, photos show a remote area teeming with life amid growing risks from climate change

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life

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King sends post box to British scientists working in Antarctica in time for Christmas

King Charles sent a post box to scientists working at a remote Antarctic research station.

The Guardian - UK

Special delivery: how a Royal Mail postbox ended up in Antarctica

A letter to the king has added a royal flourish to life at Rothera Research Station, where mail remains a vital link to the world

The Independent UK

Antarctic scientists get early Christmas present – thanks to the King

Charles was ‘touched by the story of the team working in one of the most remote places on earth’

Evening Standard

King’s special post box delivery for scientists in the Antarctic

The Royal Household teamed up with Royal Mail to send a red post box bearing the King’s cypher to a remote British research station.

The Conversation

Hundreds of iceberg earthquakes detected at the crumbling end of Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the northern hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall from glaciers into the sea.

The Conversation

Three things that might trigger massive ice sheet collapse

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are highly vulnerable to global warming and scientists are being increasingly worried about the possibility of large parts of the ice sheets collapsing, if global temperatures keep on rising.

The Conversation

Storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rain – and the consequences could be global

If you ever find yourself on Macquarie Island – a narrow, wind-lashed ridge halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica – the first thing you’ll notice is the wildlife. Elephant seals sprawl across dark beaches. King penguins march up mossy slopes. Albatrosses circle over vast, treeless uplands.

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