For decades, a vast ring of sea ice around Antarctica acted as a planetary cooling system, reflecting sunlight back into ...
A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...
A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of ...
Antarctic ice cores revealed a hidden greenhouse effect that explains why some parts of Antarctica warm more dramatically ...
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, ...
When you think of Antarctica, you might imagine a stark, otherworldly continent of endless, white ice, with the only sound being the wind punctuated by the crack of a glacier calving in the distance.
Beneath hundreds of meters of Antarctic ice, in a place no human has ever visited, warm ocean water is quietly eating away at ...
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 ...
A new study shows that atmospheric rivers may be responsible for up to 90% of Antarctica’s annual precipitation.