If you were to wander along the parts of Antarctica that are ice-free, you might be surprised to see something soft and ...
A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...
Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...
Dr Krystal Randall, a post-doctoral research fellow, found some types of moss are close to reaching nearly 30 degrees in the ...
A record-breaking heat wave unfolding at what should be the coldest time in Earth’s coldest place has scientists concerned about what it could mean for the future health of the Antarctic continent, ...
In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...
A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there impacts the world well beyond the coast — influencing weather patterns and food ...
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century, NASA and the ...
Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...
Congratulations, Antarctica! You're still the coldest place on Earth. And in 2010, you hosted a new record low temperature. A new look at old NASA Landsat 8 satellite data showed that, on August 10, ...