The deep-sea environs of the Earth’s poles are home to mysterious ocean creatures: giant sea spiders, Antarctic sea pigs, phantom jellyfish. Finding and identifying these animals can be difficult, however; some are known only because researchers found their remains in fishing nets or in the bellies of seabirds. But on Christmas Day last year, the…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. In an unexpected discovery, scientists have found that penguin droppings or guano may be helping cool Antarctica by triggering cloud formation that reflects sunlight away from Earth. The new study, published in Communications Earth & Environment, shows that ammonia released from penguin colonies significantly boosts…
The ‘world’s biggest iceberg’, “A23a iceberg“, which is more than twice the size of London, is drifting toward South Georgia Island, raising concerns among scientists that it could disrupt the feeding patterns of young penguins and seals.The massive ice block is slowly moving from Antarctica and could collide with South Georgia, a vital wildlife breeding…
Historic: Scientists extract 1.2-million-year-old ice core in Antarctic (Picture credit: AP) An international team of scientists has successfully drilled nearly two miles into Antarctic bedrock, extracting one of the oldest ice cores to date, estimated to be at least 1.2 million years old. The breakthrough promises to offer unprecedented insights into Earth’s atmospheric and climate…