The video shows an area in Antarctica where rocky outcroppings jut up above the ice sheet. The building is a South African research station.

Today, February 5th at 0700 GMT, a chunky, cherry-red ice ... Shackleton enthusiast the world over. The man at the helm is Captain Knowledge Bengu, a 41-year-old from Durban of many years ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is one of the largest on Earth, but it lies beneath several miles of ice. Lake Vostok is a giant lake in Antarctica that is similar in size to North America's Lake ...

The commander of the ship which rescued sailors from Ernest Shackleton’s ... loss of their ship in the pack ice of the Weddell Sea during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

The Antarctic ice-shelves – ice flowing off the Antarctic continent, rather than sea-ice – appear to have had a particularly extreme season of surface melting, driven by high air temperatures.

Feb. 11, 2025 — Researchers have generated the first dataset of water flow beneath the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, which will lead to more accurate projections of sea level rise. The team ...

I knew that Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen ... So there were only five of you, alone on all that ice? OLLIE: And you had no way to call anyone? No radio, nothing? ROBERT SCOTT: That ...

A newly discovered subglacial water network is playing a significant role in how Antarctica’s ice sheets move toward the ...

Munising’s ice shelves came to life this weekend, with climbers navigating the winter terrain in high spirits. Climbers from every corner of the world are in town, including Tim Emmett from the ...

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