While massive melting has hit Antarctica, Russia’s Vostok Station is currently experiencing temperatures as low as minus 87 degrees Fahrenheit, a sign of the wacky weather sparked by climate change.

Lake Vostok is about 150 miles (240 km) long and 30 miles (50 km) wide. It is the biggest of Antarctica's more than 400 subglacial lakes, which are scattered across the continent because low ...

News; World news; Weather; Inside world's coldest place where temperatures drop to bone-chilling -89C The Vostok Research Centre in Antarctica is the coldest place on the planet with temperatures ...

But cold-weather communities thrive despite the hardships—even at Antarctica's Vostok Station, where the lowest ground-level temperature (minus 128.6) was recorded.

From food supply to weather patterns, here's how Antarctica affects the world As ice melts, water temperature changes, impacting ocean currents and sea life around the globe.

Abhi Doddi (PhDAeroEngr’21) is collecting scientific data outdoors in a 70 mph whiteout blizzard. It is just another day of life in Antarctica. Doddi, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of ...

He reminds me that Antarctica doesn’t have four seasons, but two. Winter begins in March, plunging the base into almost ten months of darkness, with outside temperatures averaging -23C and winds ...

When the Cold War was heating up with fear of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, many Americans had constructed backyard bomb shelters in the ...

Antarctica is also home to over 400 subglacial lakes.The largest, Lake Vostok, lies under 2.5 miles (4 km) of ice near Russia's Vostok Station."And what's in there? Probably microbes," Klages said ...