Jan 31 Watch 2:08 Killer whales put their heads together for their next meal By Nsikan Akpan In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, we get a glimpse into the intelligent group hunting patterns of killer whales -- and the escape of one very lucky seal. Continue watching
Aug 25 Scientists found 91 volcanoes under Antarctica. Here’s what they might do By Synclaire Cruel The volcanoes are located in the West Antarctic Rift System, a 2,200-mile valley created by separating tectonic plates. Continue reading
Jul 12 Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf finally breaks, releases giant iceberg By Nsikan Akpan After months of expectation, a gigantic piece of the Larsen C ice shelf broke off Antarctica sometime between Monday and Wednesday. Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch 4:36 Antarctica is melting faster than scientists expected By PBS News Hour Scientists predict a sheet of ice 110 miles long -- the size of Delaware -- will break off Antarctica in the coming days or weeks. In its July issue, National Geographic covers the effects that warming oceans will have on… Continue watching
Apr 25 Why some penguin populations are shrinking on Antarctica By Synclaire Cruel Antarctic penguin populations have dropped more than 25 percent on average over the past two decades, according to a new report released Tuesday from the nonprofit environmental group Oceanites. Continue reading
Mar 08 Watch 5:55 How scientists are tracking a massive iceberg in the making By Miles O'Brien Antarctica's Larsen Ice Shelf is disappearing section by section. A fast-growing rift, one of the largest ever seen, is now teetering on the edge of breaking away from the glacier. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien explores how scientists have tracked the… Continue watching
Feb 08 Watch 3:28 Massive ice shelf break forces Antarctic researchers to evacuate By PBS News Hour In our NewsHour Shares moment of the day, British researchers have monitored changes in the world’s atmosphere from a remote lab in Antarctica for more than 60 years. Now, for the first time the state-of-the-art facility will close -- at… Continue watching
Jan 21 This group joined the Women’s March from Antarctica By Corinne Segal The Women’s March has reached Antarctica -- specifically, a ship of about 100 travelers on an expedition to the continent. Continue reading
Jan 06 Colossal iceberg poised to snap off Antarctic ice shelf By Dayana Morales Gomez An iceberg the size of Delaware will soon break off an ice shelf in Antarctica, according to scientists at the British Antarctic Survey. Continue reading
Nov 23 Under Trump, NASA may lose climate research By Lee Billings, Scientific American President-elect Donald Trump’s next target in his political denial of human-driven global warming and climate change might be NASA’s $2-billion annual budget for Earth science. Continue reading