Follow
Antarctica
Antarctica is the southernmost continent in the world and the location of the South Pole. Uninhabited by humans and covered in ice, it is the coldest and driest continent and contains most of the world's ice.
-
JUL 24, 2025Earth & The Environment
What can submarine canyons teach scientists about the Earth’s oceans? This is what a recent study published in Mar ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 09, 2025Earth & The Environment
How can ship anchors affect Antarctic ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Conservation Sci ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAPR 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
There are many unknowns when it comes to climate change, like what might happen to the ice in Antarctica. Vast and remot ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 31, 2025Earth & The Environment
Every year, the Arctic freezes. The sea ice reaches its maximum extent every year in March, and then as the season chang ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 06, 2025Earth & The Environment
What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 03, 2025Earth & The Environment
When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaci ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 04, 2024Earth & The Environment
How soon will the Arctic summer months experience an ice-free environment, meaning no frozen seawater will exist in the ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 18, 2024Microbiology
There are microbial communities thriving at the depths of Antarctic lakes where conditions are so harsh, very little els ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 16, 2024Plants & Animals
How can scientists protect biodiversity across the Earth while climate change continues to ravage the planet? This is wh ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
All over the world, the climate is changing. As the world gets warmer, pools of meltwater have begun to form on glaciers ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 02, 2024Microbiology
Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside the many animals' guts and in ne ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 14, 2024Earth & The Environment
There is broad scientific consensus that high levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 01, 2024Space & Astronomy
While Earth remains the only known world with bodies of liquid water on its surface, there are a myriad of worlds within ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 28, 2024Earth & The Environment
Can researchers predict the behavior of ice glaciers before they break apart and melt due to warming waters? This is wha ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 27, 2024Earth & The Environment
Ice core samples are a powerful tool that helps scientists understand the history of the planet's climate. But one site ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 24, 2023Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have taken an innovative approach to investigate the ancient past of Antarctica; they have analyzed octopus g ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2023Earth & The Environment
In this photos by Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute, the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet is shown, where recent melting has ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 21, 2023Earth & The Environment
The last eight years have been the hottest ever recorded, and 2023 is on track to be the hottest year of all time. The g ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 10, 2023Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 26, 2023Earth & The Environment
On January 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, triggering a massive sonic boom and a tsunami ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 20, 2023Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in ISME Journal examines how climate change affects microbial communities in the waters surroun ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScSEP 12, 2023Space & Astronomy
Researchers from the MARUM Research Facility at the University of Bremen are coordinating an effort to potentially explo ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 16, 2023Earth & The Environment
Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) recently announced that July 2023 was officiall ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 15, 2023Plants & Animals
Today is a special day for a special species of ancient Earth, Megalodons, also known as Otodus megalodon, as June 15 is ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 24, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What can submarine canyons teach scientists about the Earth’s oceans? This is what a recent study published in Mar
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 09, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How can ship anchors affect Antarctic ecosystems? This is what a recent study published in Frontiers in Conservation Sci
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
There are many unknowns when it comes to climate change, like what might happen to the ice in Antarctica. Vast and remot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 31, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Every year, the Arctic freezes. The sea ice reaches its maximum extent every year in March, and then as the season chang
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 06, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What impacts have climate change mitigation strategies had on the ozone layer? This is what a recent study published in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 03, 2025
Earth & The Environment
When massive blocks of ice detach from glaciers, it is known as calving. This process is one of the main ways that glaci
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 04, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How soon will the Arctic summer months experience an ice-free environment, meaning no frozen seawater will exist in the
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 18, 2024
Microbiology
There are microbial communities thriving at the depths of Antarctic lakes where conditions are so harsh, very little els
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 16, 2024
Plants & Animals
How can scientists protect biodiversity across the Earth while climate change continues to ravage the planet? This is wh
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
All over the world, the climate is changing. As the world gets warmer, pools of meltwater have begun to form on glaciers
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 02, 2024
Microbiology
Single-celled organisms have managed to make a home almost everywhere, including inside the many animals' guts and in ne
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 14, 2024
Earth & The Environment
There is broad scientific consensus that high levels of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 01, 2024
Space & Astronomy
While Earth remains the only known world with bodies of liquid water on its surface, there are a myriad of worlds within
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 28, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Can researchers predict the behavior of ice glaciers before they break apart and melt due to warming waters? This is wha
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 27, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Ice core samples are a powerful tool that helps scientists understand the history of the planet's climate. But one site
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 24, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Scientists have taken an innovative approach to investigate the ancient past of Antarctica; they have analyzed octopus g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2023
Earth & The Environment
In this photos by Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute, the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet is shown, where recent melting has
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 21, 2023
Earth & The Environment
The last eight years have been the hottest ever recorded, and 2023 is on track to be the hottest year of all time. The g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 10, 2023
Microbiology
Rotifers are a type of microscopic zooplankton that lives in freshwater ecosystems and oceans around the world. Ne resea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 26, 2023
Earth & The Environment
On January 15, 2022, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano erupted, triggering a massive sonic boom and a tsunami
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2023
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in ISME Journal examines how climate change affects microbial communities in the waters surroun
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
SEP 12, 2023
Space & Astronomy
Researchers from the MARUM Research Facility at the University of Bremen are coordinating an effort to potentially explo
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 16, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) recently announced that July 2023 was officiall
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 15, 2023
Plants & Animals
Today is a special day for a special species of ancient Earth, Megalodons, also known as Otodus megalodon, as June 15 is
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc