The new study—by the universities of Exeter and Hertfordshire, and the British Antarctic Survey—used satellite data to assess how much the Antarctic Peninsula has been "greening" in response ...

A new Chinese satellite known as Fengyun-3E is using some novel approaches to monitor Antarctic sea ice in order to help scientists better understand the changing climate at the poles. While it is ...

Satellite images, including recent data captured ... Iceberg A23a has been a concern for scientists since it broke away from the Antarctic ice shelf in 1986. After remaining immobile for over ...

The world's biggest iceberg—more than twice the size of London—could drift towards a remote island where a scientist warns it ...

The objective of the German satellite mission TanDEM-X is to generate a high-precision ... than two meters in relative view and better than 10 meters in absolute view (Metzig and others 2008). An ...

This new colony makes a total of 66 known emperor penguin colonies around the coastline of Antarctica, with exactly half having been discovered by satellite imagery.

New research shows that vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased over tenfold in the past 40 years, highlighting the impact of climate change in this region. Satellite data ...

For over 30 years, the A23a iceberg stayed anchored to the Antarctic Weddell Sea floor before it shrank and lost its grip on the seafloor which turned it into a massive floating fragment of ice. The ...