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10 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: October 8, 2026.
Drone and satellite counts show Zavodovski Island lost more than 680,000 breeding chinstraps since 2011. Researchers blame climate change reshaping krill supplies, not the volcano.
The 82-year-old Belgian-American physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is honored for realizing that Antarctic ice could reveal high-energy neutrinos streaming in from distant galaxies.
An ESA-led team stitched together 45 surveys from 27 satellites to push the record back to the 1970s. The ice sheets were stable through the 1990s, then 'it really kicked in during the 2010s.' A brief pause from 2020 to 2023 is over.
The first continent-wide map of grounded icebergs, built from Sentinel-1 radar images by a University of Tasmania master's student, finds 80% of them crowded onto 14% of the coastline. The small ones are the ones most likely to melt loose first.
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An 82-million-year-old tail vertebra collected on James Ross Island in 1985 has been identified as a titanosaur — the first dinosaur bone ever found on the continent.
Buried under ice up to three kilometers thick, the newly mapped structure radiates from a single point near the South Pole and may shape how the ice sheet responds to warming.
Advanced neutron imaging of Koharalepis jarviki fossil uncovers brain features and air-gulping adaptations that helped ancient fish transition from water to land.
A new study published in The Cryosphere documents a two-month interval during which Hektoria's grounded ice line retreated more than five miles — a melt rate unprecedented since satellite tracking of polar ice began.
The IUCN upgraded the iconic species from Near Threatened to Endangered on April 9, projecting the population will halve by the 2080s without major emissions reductions.
Oregon State University researchers drilling in Antarctica's Allan Hills found that CO2 levels three million years ago were 250 ppm — yet temperatures were far warmer than expected, suggesting standard climate models badly underestimate Earth's sensitivity.