Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, measuring up to 30 meters long and weighing up to 200 tons—as much as a Boeing ...
Antarctic blue whales, the largest creatures on the planet, were hunted to the brink of extinction in the 20th century, ...
Audio collected with underwater microphones suggests numbers at least stable after centuries of industrial whaling left only ...
The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists ...
A nearly two-decade study of whale songs recorded in the Southern Ocean suggests that blue whales, the largest creatures ever ...
The Ministry of Earth Sciences, through the National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, will host the 46th Antarctic Treaty ...
A manned mission to Mars presents a huge array of challenges for scientists and explorers to figure out. Chief among them: ...
A recent study explains the formation of a large Antarctic sea ice opening by detailing the oceanic and atmospheric ...
Antarctica has long been loved by astronomers for hosting rocks from outer space - more than 48,000 meteorites cataloged were ...
Every now and then for the last 50 years, an enormous hole opens up in the Antarctic sea ice. And by enormous, we mean truly enormous — the feature in question was twice the size of Wales last time it ...
Scientists have undertaken seven voyages totalling more than 100,000 kilometres and eight months at sea to build the most ...
Unfortunately, a famous hole in the layer exists over the Antarctic for a few months a year, letting in cancer-causing ultraviolet (UV) light. Now, researchers warn that the hole is lingering ...