Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

the continent would gain a new inland sea—but it would lose much of the narrow coastal strip where four out of five Australians now live. East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so ...

So, here’s the scoop: a major oil discovery in Antarctica has got everyone buzzing, and it’s stirring up quite a debate about ...

with color coding that purportedly shows ice gain and loss between Dec. 21, 2016, and Dec. 21, 2024. "I love data," the caption reads. "'Sea ice extent at both poles today is higher than eight ...

For now, the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf—one of Antarctica's biggest ... warmer water to the continental shelf in the future. To gain a clearer picture of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf's future ...

Jacob Chalif is part of a U.S. National Science Foundation project collecting some of the world’s oldest ice — dating back as many as a million years or more — for a Dartmouth College study on climate ...

If it gets stuck near South Georgia Island, that could make it hard for penguin parents to feed their babies and some young ...

A comparison of polar sea ice extents on two random days does not provide enough information to determine whether or not Earth's climate is changing.