Science news articles about 'southernmost continent'

... the last traces of tundra--in the form of fossilized plants and insects--on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began a relentless drop millions of years ago. An abrupt and ...

... predictions covering the last 50 years broadly follow the actual observed temperatures and snowfall for the southernmost continent, although the observations are very variable. That’s the good news. ...

... concludes. The study can help scientists improve computer models and determine if Earth's southernmost continent will warm significantly this century, a major research question because of Antarctica's ...

... a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago. ...

... What the team hopes to find there are answers to some of the most basic questions about the nature of the southernmost continent--and specifically the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet--including how ...

... for IPY. Through the Antarctic Program, NSF manages all federally funded research on the southernmost continent. Fully in the spirit of IPY, noted Detlef Damaske of Germany's Federal Institute for ...