What is going on with the NFL and Antarctica? Earlier today The Athletic published an interview with Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf. In the interview it was revealed that Metcalf believed a conspiracy theory that "there is another civilization inside the Earth," and it has something to do with Antarctica.
Not long after that, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw took the podium in Australia ahead of his team's game against the Los Angeles Rams. One reporter asked Greenlaw if he had any questions for Australians and he started asking his own questions about Antarctica.
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"I mean it's just interesting being in another country. I mean how far are we from Antarctica? That's what I gotta ask. So we're like right on top of, huh? Like, does it snow. It snows probably pretty bad."
When Greenlaw was told its not as bad as Antarctica, he asked if the country was "a lie." He followed that by asking if anyone had been to Antarctica. When no one had, he asked how they knew it was cold and walked off.

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A US Air Force flight bound for Antarctica returned to New Zealand after a warning about "potentially hazardous" ***** e activity, according to New Zealand authorities.
A spokesperson for New Zealand's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said the agency was aware the US Air Force flight from Christchurch turned around following a warning it issued, known as a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen).
The ***** e activity was notified to the agency by Russia's State Air Traffic Management Corporation, "resulting in the issuance of a NOTAM advising pilots of the hazard," CAA said in a statement Tuesday.
In a follow-up statement Wednesday, CAA said it was made aware by the Russian air traffic agency of a planned missile launch and "associated potential hazard to international airspace, within New Zealand's Oceanic Flight Information Region (FIR)," a 30-million-square-kilometer area which is one of the largest airspaces in the world.
CNN has reached out to the US Air Force, the US Antarctic Program and the Russian State Air Traffic Management Corporation.

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A ‘triple whammy’ of chaos has triggered a downward spiral in Antarctica, scientists discover

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the Arctic. But in 2015, that changed when the sea ice fringing this vast, icy continent stopped expanding and began to decline dramatically. Now, scientists say they have figured out why this happened — and their findings spell deep trouble for a region whose fate affects us all.
Antarctic sea ice has been on a steep downward trend for nearly a decade. It reached a record low in 2022 and again in 2023, when it dropped to just 691,000 square miles, equivalent to an area of missing ice larger than Greenland compared to average levels. This year saw a higher amount of sea ice at the height of the Southern Hemispher summer, but it was still at its 16th lowest level in nearly five decades of record keeping.
Scientists have been working for years to understand what is driving the precipitous decline in sea ice and whether it is a sign Antarctica is entering a new state.
The new research identifies a series of different processes — driven by intensifying winds and warming water — which flipped the ocean surrounding Antarctica “out of balance.” It amounts to a “triple whammy of climate chaos,” the report authors wrote in a press release accompanying the paper, which was published in the journal Science Advances on Friday.
The chain of events began decades ago, when westerly winds around Antarctica started to get stronger, said Aditya Narayanan, a study author and research fellow in physical oceanography at the University of Southampton in the UK.

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An Australian national science agency called CSIRO launched an experiment in Antarctica that went terribly wrong — in a way that ended up going wonderfully right. A free-floating ocean robot was sent to collect data from the Totten Glacier. However, a current pulled it away from its destination and westward. It ended up in a place very difficult for scientists to ***** yze, and it returned with extremely rare and valuable data.
The ocean float has salinity and temperature sensors and was meant to go below the water and surface once every 10 days to transmit its data to satellites. Robots like

A massive iceberg that broke away from Antarctica exposed something that left scientists baffled.
Over 1,000 mysterious "dimples" were found carved into the sea floor, Discover Wildlife reported.
While this discovery may sound like a curious deep-ocean surprise, researchers warned that it highlights how vulnerable polar ecosystems are as changing conditions open access to these once-frozen habitats.
The Weddell Sea Expedition team originally set out to search for explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship, the Endurance. Instead, they found icefish nests previously hidden beneath the ice sh

Ozone hole ranked as 5th smallest in more than 30 years, according to new research

The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest it's been since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA scientists.
The ozone hole reached its greatest one-day extent for 2025 in early September, measuring 8.83 million square miles, about 30% smaller than the largest hole on record in 2006.
Ozone hole over Antarctica grows to one of the largest on record, scientists say
The so-called “ozone hole” is not an actual hole in the

The ozone hole over the Antarctic is significantly smaller in 2025 than in previous years, ranking as the fifth-smallest it's been since 1992, according to a new report by NOAA and NASA scientists.
The ozone hole reached its greatest one-day extent for 2025 in early September, measuring 8.83 million square miles, about 30% smaller than the largest hole on record in 2006.
Ozone hole over Antarctica grows to one of the largest on record, scientists say
The so-called “ozone hole” is not an actual hole in the planet’s ozone layer, but rather a large region of Earth’s stratosphere with extremely

Scientists puzzled by 'whodunnit' scenario unfolding in Antarctica: 'We disagree about the process'

Scientists are investigating a "whodunnit" scenario involving an Antarctic glacier that rapidly retreated about 16 miles between 2022 and 2023.
The Hektoria Glacier melted significantly between January 2022 and March 2023, according to the BBC. Researchers have been trying to figure out the cause of such intense loss. A new study suggested that this was the first instance of a glacier resting on a seabed destabilizing so quickly.
Hektoria has been deteriorating since 2002, when the ice shel

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet covers some 760,000 square miles and is up to 1.2 miles thick. If it were to ever melt away entirely, it would add 10 feet to global sea levels. Even considering how quickly humans are heating the planet, such a change would likely unfold over centuries — that’s how much ice we’re talking about here. But scientists are finding more and more evidence that Antarctica’s ice is in far more peril than previously believed, with many abrupt changes, like the loss of sea ice, reinforcing one another.
We can now add underwater “storms” to the troubles unfolding around the

A new long-term study has revealed that emperor penguins — iconic symbols of the icy wilderness — are being forced to abandon their breeding sites as Antarctica warms.
According to China Daily, researchers at Sun Yat-sen University tracked penguin colonies remotely for 11 years, finding that these birds move roughly 73 meters (240 feet) for every 1 degree Celsius (1.8 Fahrenheit) increase in temperature. The study's lead author, Lin Hong, used satellite imagery to monitor "guano stains," or droppings left on sea ice, which serve as visible evidence of colony locations.
The data showed an ala

A glacier in Antarctica about the size of Philadelphia lost half of its entire mass in just two months, according to a shocking new study.
The alarming discovery of the Hektoria Glacier's stunning retreat happened accidentally, according to CNN. Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder had been in the process of monitoring the area's fast ice for a different study.
Fast ice — also known as landfast ice — essentially acts as a stationary belt around the Antarctic coastline, serving as an important habitat for wildlife and a reservoir for marine nutrients.
Naomi Ochwat, a co-author