The world's largest iceberg, known as A23a, which broke off the coast of Antarctica in 1986 and began its movement in the spring of 2023, reached the open waters of the Southern Ocean in mid-November. Meduza writes about this. A23a formed from a large-scale ice...

French scientists have raised concerns about the possibility of a new pandemic following the resurgence of a "zombie virus" that has been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a record 50 years, NewYorkPost reports. “The situation would be much more catastrophic in the case of plant diseases…

The melting of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica poses the biggest threat to sea level rise this century, ScitechDaily reports. Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, sometimes called the Doomsday Glacier, is melting rapidly as warming oceans slowly...