A geologist estimated in 2018 that the global price of oil would need to be above $200 per barrel for commercial resource extraction of oil in Antarctica to be feasible. That is a remarkably high ...

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Think you know what Argentina and Chile look like on a map? Think again. Official versions of the two nations’ maps include large swaths of Antarctica, parts of which overlap with each other. And it’s ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, ...

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

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Antarctica is officially hiring, and the coldest continent is seek applicants who are cool under pressure. These positions are plentiful and well-paid. Antarctic Artist & Writer Shaun O’Boyle takes ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier stunned scientists by retreating eight kilometers in just two months, with nearly half of it collapsing in record time. The rapid breakup was driven by a flat, underwater ...

Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed. By Eric Niiler Prospectors are scouring the Pacific Ocean ...

A dip in Earth's gravity field beneath Antarctica is helping scientists track deep-Earth changes over tens of millions of years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It's located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson ...