Published on: 2025-04-24 18:21:40
In Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth's 1953 sci-fi classic "The Space Merchants," governments have been replaced by powerful corporations that have privatized nearly every corner of the globe. Thanks to overpopulation on all of the other continents, Antarctica has become a resort colony, chock full of tourists, equipment-rental companies, and violently invasive advertisements. It's a powerful novel — though one that was never meant to be taken as a suggestion. Unfortunately, a growing tourist i
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the US was imposing reciprocal tariffs on a small collection of Antarctic islands that are not inhabited by humans, as part of a global trade war aimed at asserting US dominance. The Heard and McDonald Islands, known for their populations of penguins and seabirds, can only be reached by sea. Trump announced the countries now subject to tariffs in a Wednesday press conference, using a poster as a prop. Additional countries—including the Heard and Mc
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A new group is aiming not only to further our understanding of glaciers but also to look into options to save them if things move toward a worst-case scenario, as my colleague James Temple outlined in his latest story. One idea: refreezing glaciers in place. The whole thing can sound like science fiction. But once you consider how huge the stakes are, I think it gets easier to understand why some scientists say we should at least be exploring these radical interventions. It’s hard to feel very
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In large part thanks to being in the right place at the right time, researchers discovered a thriving marine ecosystem underneath a 19-miles iceberg after it cracked off the ice sheet off the coast of Antarctica earlier this year. As the Washington Post reports, a team of researchers on board a vessel called the "Falkor (too)" — yes, that's it's name, including the parentheses — weren't expecting to find many signs of life on the seafloor following the powerful event. But to their shock, they
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The world's largest iceberg, roughly four times the size of New York City, has run aground after crashing into a remote island in the South Atlantic ocean. As the New York Times reports, the event is an early warning sign of what's still to come as global warming is causing major changes in the Antarctic Peninsula. The iceberg, dubbed A23a, had been confined for decades to the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic. Then it started to move in 2020 after becoming unmoored from the sea floor. In 20
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Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency has been rampaging through the US federal government at an alarming pace, leaving seemingly no stone unturned. As Wired reports, even scientists at the United States Antarctic Program (USAP), which operates three permanent stations on the southernmost continent, are feeling the hurt. Over a thousand people visit these stations each year, conducting important scientific experiments, from studying climate change to peering into the earlie
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Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impacts—and are terrified for what’s to come. The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) operates three permanent stations in Antarctica. These remote stations are difficult to get to and difficult to maintain; scattered across the continent, they are built on volcanic hills, polar pl
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Few agencies have been spared as Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has ripped through the United States federal government. Even in Antarctica, scientists and workers are feeling the impacts—and are terrified for what’s to come. The United States Antarctic Program (USAP) operates three permanent stations in Antarctica. These remote stations are difficult to get to and difficult to maintain; scattered across the continent, they are built on volcanic hills, polar pl
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