The study is based only on simulated scenarios, but real-world changes happening in Antarctica are already affecting the planet. Scientists sound alarm over little-known threat emerging from ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

Dartmouth oceanographer Yoshihiro Nakayama created a high-resolution model to study the melting of two glaciers in western ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Intense storms that sweep over the Southern Ocean enable the ocean to absorb more heat from the atmosphere. New research from the University of Gothenburg shows that today’s climate models ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...