Antarctica is not like every other continent. Aside from its extreme cold and vast ice sheet, it's also the only major piece of land that has never had a human settlement rise up on it. And because of this, as it was explored in the...

In this video, we learn about the discovery of a meteorite from Mars in Antarctica, which provides valuable insights into the age of our solar system. The meteorite, named Milo 3346, was found by researchers and taken to the Johnson...

ANTARCTICA ANTARTICA IS A STOREHOUSE OF EARTH HISTORY AND CONTAINS MANY CLUES ABOUT ITS POSSIBLE FUTURE. STUDYING SECTIONS OF ICE CORE GOING BACK 800,000 YEARS, SCIENTISTS AT THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY HAVE COME TO SOME STARK...

Greenland:"To finish, we go to the surprising Island Country of Greenland. To admire some of the most incredible glaciers on earth. This land with 80% of ice has fantastic places to explore."

Greatest Antarctic Dynasties of All Time

A “tipping point” is when a system, with just a small amount of additional energy, is pushed from one stable state to another suddenly and dramatically. This can be a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing....

The weather down here can get pretty crazy. But we got curious and asked: just how extreme can weather actually get on planet earth? So we decided to travel the world in search of answers and discovered not only some fascinating answers,...

With unprecedented heat waves and record-breaking global temperatures, it’s hard to believe that there might be a place on earth that has actually COOLED since the industrial revolution.

Sea level rise is a problem that is garnishing increasing attention among both scientists and the media. And as climate change continues to warm the earth, the current rate of 1.4 inches per decade is projected to increase, with NOAA...

For decades, Antarctic sea ice trends seemed to defy climate change, until…they didn’t. In just two years, Antarctica lost as much sea ice as the Arctic lost in three decades. Statistics say that the record low sea ice in 2023 was a 1 in...

Join Constantine Tsang and the ANSMET team on their NASA-funded quest to uncover meteorites in Antarctica.

Single-celled microorganisms, which do not have a nucleus, and reproduce by simple cell division.
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The regions of the Earth in between the Tropic of Cancer and arctic circle in the northern hemisphere, and the Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctica in the south, that have less extreme temperatures than the poles and equatorial...

Deserts are regions that receive very little precipitation each year, but how are they formed? The unique characteristics of the world's deserts, from hot to polar. Earth Science - Weather - Learning Points. Deserts are the driest...

Investigating why peregrine falcon populations are threatened by pollution from industry thousands of kilometres away. Biology - Ecosystems - Learning Points. The peregrine falcon lives remotely but is affected by man-made chemicals....

Laser technology aboard aircraft has allowed scientists to measure the Greenland Ice Sheet, one of the largest bodies of ice in the world. Is it growing or shrinking? Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. NASA scientists...

We know that Mars once had a landscape with oceans and rivers, but what happened to it? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. Although Mars is a freezing dry world today, it is thought the planet was once like Earth. If liquid water once...

The world has already faced a major global climate challenge: the hole in the ozone layer, discovered in 1985. Find out what ozone is, why it's important, and how the ozone hole is being repaired. Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning...

At the Earth's poles, wildlife survives both under the sea, and on the icy surface above. Biology - Ecosystems - Learning Points. During the winter, both the Arctic and Southern Oceans are covered in a thick layer of ice. The two frozen...

Ice cores taken from deep within the Earth's polar regions hold a hidden secret: the historical record of the Earth's climate. Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. Evidence of natural climate changes can be found in...

Scientists have found microbes frozen deep in the Antarctic ice sheets, in conditions very similar to the red planet's surface. Could life exist on Mars, in suspended animation? Physics - Universe - Learning Points. In 2001, a frozen...

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Learn about the intrepid explorer who led numerous expeditions to the uncharted Antarctic.