Antarctica

Antarctic international agreements:

Antarctic Traaty

The Antarctic Treaty

Mining in the Antarctic

Prehistory of Antarctica

AGU's Antarctic Blogosphere

Signatories to the Antartic Treaty

Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty

Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

A timeline of the exploration of Antarctica

Conservation biogeography of the Antarctic

Antarctic 'pole of ignorance' finally addressed

Governance of the exploration of subglacial Antarctica

Enhanced international cooperation needed in Antarctica

Looking at Antarctic's future through an indigenous Maori lens

More and better science in Antarctica through increased logistical effectiveness

June 2021 the 43rd Antartic Treaty Consulttative Meeting (ATCM) organized by France 

80 questions about the southern tip of the world  Supplementary info re list of 80 question of Antartica

Antarctic vulnerability:

Antarctica at risk

Antarctic extreme events

The challenges facing the vulnerable Antarctic

Characterizing atmospheric transport pathways to Antarctica and Southern Ocean using Radon-222 

Films & videos of Antarctica:

A voyage to Antarctica

Queen Maud land, Antarctica

Filming under water: life in Antarctica in 360 degrees VR

Stunning time-lapse brings Antartica ice breaking adventure to life

Visiting the most vulnerable place on Earth: the 'doomsday glacier

Time-lapse photos and synched weather data unlock Antarctic secrets 

Mapping Antarctica:

Cryosat reveals Antarctica in 3D

Earliest maps of Antarctic and Arctic sea-ice

Cryosat maps largest-ever flood beneath Antartica

NASA Airborne Mission Maps Remote, Deteriorating Glaciers

NASA-USGS Landsat 8 satellite pinpoints coldest spots on Earth

Researchers release the most accurate map of Antarctica terrain

Bedmap2 gives scientists a more detailed view of Antarctics's landmass

Bedmap2: NASA's Icebridge mission contributes to new map of Antarctica

Antarctic Ice Dynamics:

Ice apocalypse

The big meltdown

Is Antarctica melting?

Cracking the ice code

Ice streams in Antarctica

Flow of Ice across Antarctica

Antarctica's ice loss on the rise

Antarctic ice safety bands at risk

Antartica's ice losses on the rise

Antarctic ice cap melting faster and faster

Geophysics could slow Antarctic ice retreat

Antarctic images reveal decades of ice loss

More ice loss through snowfall on Antarctica

Fate of 'Doomsday Glacier' is a warning light

The uncertain future of Antarctica's melting ice 

Vintage radar film tracks what's beneath Antarctic ice

Cryosat finds sharp increase in Antarctica's ice losses

Coastal Antarctic permafrost melting faster than expected

A close look at melting below Antarctica's largest ice shelf

The Warming of Antarctica: A Citadel of Ice Begins to Melt

Stabilizing the West Antarctic Ice Sheet by mass deposition

Coastal Antarctica permafrost melting faster than we expected

Models of Antarctica's climate should account for wind-driven snow

Slowdown in Antarctic mass loss from solid Earth and sea-level feedbacks

Antarctic lakes & othere structures below the ice:

Antarctic's hidden world revealed

The making of Antarctica's hidden fjords

The geography of Antarctica's underside

Wahst's realli in Antaarctica's Blood Falls?

Underground Antarctic lakes, rivers & hotspots

Giant channels discovered beneath Antarctica ice shelf

Scientists find Grand Canyon-sized rift under Antarctic ice

A shared resource for studying extreme polar environments

Giant trench under Antarctica ice deeper than Grand Canyon

Deepest dive under Antarctic reveals a shockingly vibrant world

Study suggests large methane reservoirs beneath Antarctic ice sheet

First estuary found under Antarctica ice -- the prospects are fascinating

Drilling team reaches convergence of ice sheet, ocean and land in Antarctic

Scientists just drilled through thousands of feet of ice into a 'lost' Antarctic lake

Antarctic life below the ice:

Antarctic aquifers may support microbial life

Hidden beneath a half-mile office, Antarctic lake teems with life

Glass sponges take advantage of retreating Antarctic ice shelves

Subglacial Lake Vostok ice contains diverse aquatic, marine and sediment-inhabiting bacteria and eukarya

Antarctic sea ice, ice sheet and ice shelf dynamics:

Sea ice in Antartica

Ice sheets in Antartica

Ice shelves in Antarctica

Solve Antarctica's sea-ice puzzle

Development and dynamics of ice sheets

Study projects big thaw for Antarctic sea ice

Ice sheet retreat controlled by the landscape

Mapping ice sheet grounding lines with CryoSat-2

What's holding Antarctic sea ice ack From Melting?

Ice-loss moves the Earth 250 miles beneath our feet

Has Antarctic sea ice expansion been overestimated?

Antarctica ice sheet preserves invisible mountain range

Exploring a warm water inflow below an Antarctic ice shelf

Giant atmospheric rivers add mass to Antarctica's ice sheet

New perspectives on the enigma of expanding Antarctic sea ice 

NASA study: mass gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet greater than losses

Spring-summer albedo variations of Antarctic sea ice from 1982 to 2009

Gravity data show that Antarctica ice sheet is melting increasingly faster

Massive crevasses and bendable ice affect stability of Antarctic ice shelf

Researchers find Antarctic ice-sheet less stable than previously assumed

New mission boosts understanding of how ocean melts Antarctic ice sheet

Why Antarctica sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change

Researchers decipher the Miocene: growth of Antarctic ice sheet triggered warming in the Southern Ocean

Antarctic winds and waves:

Powerful winds carving away Antarctic snow

Antarctic ice shelf 'sings' as winds whip across its surface

Wind-blown Antarctic sea ice helps drive ocean circuation

Tropical air circulation drives fall warming on Antarctic Peninsula

Near Antarctic ocean dynamics:

Heat comes from the deep

Antarctic seawater temperatures rising

What steers Antartica's largest current? 

Warming ocean thawing Antarctica glacier

How do the deep waters of the Antarctic form?

Warm ocean drives most Antarctic ice shelf loss

Warming ocean could start big shift of Antarctic ice

The fate of bioavailable iron in Antarctic coastal seas

Coldest, deepest ocean water mysteriously disappears

Geoscientist studies Antarctic ice shelf ocean-interaction

Ocean circulation in the coastal waters around Antarctica

Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn't warmed

Warm ocean currents cause majority of ice loss from Antarctica

New Antarctica geological timeline aids future sea-level predictions

Seismic waves will measure the effects of ocean waves on Antarctic ice shelves

Changing atmospheric conditions may contribute to stronger ocean wave activity on Antarctica Peninsula

Glaciers:

'Tiger stripes' underneath Antarctica glaciers slow the flow

Scientists cast doubt on what triggered Antarctica glaciation

International Antartica glacier study to focus on sea level changes

The Southern Ocean:

Tropical sea temperatures influence melting in Antarctica 

The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean

Volcanic activity in Antarctica:

Researchers find evidence of fire in Antarctic ice

Deception Island volcano in Antartica is full of wildlife

Volcano discovery hints at fire below ice in Antarctica

Shimmering water reveals cold volcanic vent in Antarctic waters

Antarctica's past climate:

Plunge in CO2 put the freeze on Antarctica

Ancient ice melt unearthed in Antarctica mud

Clues to climate cycles dug from South Pole snow pit 

Antarctic Ice core contains unrivaled detail of past climate

Tiny fosslis hold answers to big questions on climate change

Antarctic ice sheet is result of CO2 decrease, not continental breakup

Researchers refine assessment of tipping elements of the climate system

The dominant role of extreme precipitation events in Antarctic snowfall variability

33.6 million years ago Earth got the Antarctic Polar Icecap - and a plankton food web 

Comparing Arctic with Antarctic Weather & Climate:

Antarctic sea ice - a polar opposite?

Resolving the paradox of Antarctic sea ice

Simultaneous ice melt in Antarctic and Arctic

Poles apart: a record breaking summer and winter

Study helps explain sea ice differences at Earth's poles

Opposite behavior: Arctic sea ice shrinks, Antarctica grows!

Expeditions, research projects and stations:

The US South Pole Station

Australian Antarctic Division

Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under   

International Team to Drill Beneath Massive Antarctic Ice Shelf        

At South Pole, World's Most Extreme Scientific Construction Project

Regions of Antartica:

West Antartica Ice Sheet:

West Antarctic melt rate has tripled

What lies beneath West Antarctica? 

Accelerated glacier melting in West Antacrtica 

Wind analysis links West Antarctic ice loss to humans

West Antarctica ice shelf breaking up from the inside out

A 308 year record of climate variablility in West Antartica

Local destabilization can cause complete loss of West Antarctica ice

Researchers map oceanic troughs below ice sheets in West Antarctica

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

West Antarctica ice-sheet existed 20 million years earlier than previously thought

Evidence for a water system transition beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica

Study finds surprisingly high geothermal heating beneath West Antarctic ice sheet

Melt rate of West Antarctic Ice Sheet highly sensitive to changes in ocean temperatures

Widespread riifting of ice-shelf margins in the eastern Amudsen Embayment between 1972 and 2011

Thwaites's Glacier:

Time is running out for Thwaite's Glacier

Giant Antarctica glacier beyond point of no return

'Glacial earthquake' spotted for the first time on Thwaites

Antarctic ice shelves are shattering. How fast sea level rise?

The melting underneath the Thwaites Glacier is complicated

Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antartica

Ancient Antartic ice melt increased sea level by 3+ metres, and it could happen again

Scientists image vast subglacial water system underpinning West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier

How much, how fast? Research on the instability of Antartica's Thwaite's Glacier in the 21st Century

Pine Island:

El Nino tied to melting of Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier

Current ice melt rate in Pine Island Glacier may go for decades

Strong sensitivity of Pine Island ice-shelf melting to climatic variability

East Antarctic Ice Sheet:

East Antarctica is sliding sideways

Breaking through the ice at Lake Vostok

Russian drilling at South Pole opens new doors

East Antarctic ice sheet has stayed frozen for 14 million years

East Antarctica mellting could be explained by oceanic gateways

New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet

Gamburtsev Mountains enigma unraveled in interior East Antarctica 

Far fewer lakes below the East Antarctic Ice Sheet than previously believed

Anatomy of a meltwater drainage system beneath the ancestral East Antarctica ice sheet

Antarctic Peninsula:

Cryosat detects sudden ice loss in Southern Antarctic Peninsula

Summer melt season is getting longer on the Antarctic Peninsula, new data show :

Fildes Peninsula  

The current enviironmental situation and proposals for the management of the Fildes Peninsula