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Climate change could affect timekeeping, study says
BBC via Yahoo News· 37 minutes agoThere has been some scepticism of the study, however. Demetrios Matsakis, former chief scientist for time services at the US Naval Observatory, told AFP...
Antarctica's 'Penguin Post Office' is hiring for one of most unique jobs on the planet
Fox Weather via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIf penguin-counting and sorting postcards addressed to penguins at the world’s southernmost post...
Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
The Economist· 2 days agoMuch of it will hail from Earth’s southernmost continent more than 10,000km away, home to the...
Will This Chilean Mussel Invade Antarctica And Cause Catastrophe?
Forbes· 3 days agoIn a study published in April 2024 in the international journal Science of The Total Environment,...
Mysterious 'pyramid' discovered beneath the ice in Antarctica sparked wild conspiracy theories
UNILAD· 2 days agoThe rumor mill has ramped up its efforts after a mysterious shape was spotted in Antarctica...
Key Ocean Current Contains a Warning on Climate
Columbia University News· 1 day agoA new study shows that a giant current circling Antarctica has speeded up during past warm periods, eating away at the polar ice. It connects the Indian,...
John Wheeler: It has certainly been hotter and colder than the record extremes
The Fargo Forum· 3 days agoThe hottest officially recognized temperatures on Earth recorded by actual thermometers are Death Valley, California, at 134 degrees. The coldest is -127 degrees at the Vostok ...
Melting polar ice is slowing the Earth's rotation, with possible consequences for timekeeping
NBC News via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoScientists expect sea level rise to accelerate as the climate warms, a process that will continue...
Global Warming Is Slowing the Earth’s Rotation
Scientific American· 1 day agoAs rising global temperatures melt Earth’s polar ice sheets, the shifting water is creating such a huge redistribution of our planet’s mass that its...
Antarctic Sea Ice Near Historic Lows
RTT News· 1 day agoSea ice at both the top and bottom of the earth continued its decline in 2024. In the waters around Antarctica, ice coverage shrank to near-historic lows for the third year ...