When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square ...

Painting a picture of the effects of a changing climate on Antarctica is probably best done with a camera. Well, at least in Neil Ever Osborne's case it is. Ever Osborne has spent two decades ...

Rain in Antarctica isn’t just a sign of climate change. It’s also part of a feedback loop that accelerates global warming. Climate change is bringing a new threat to penguins that live on the ...

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

What’s new: A recent study reveals that the icy Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, has experienced a nearly twelve-fold increase in plant cover over the last 35 years.

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

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 ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future sea level rise. A study published in Nature Communications reveals that ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...