Glacier mass balance intercomparison exercise As of the year 2000, glaciers—excluding the continental ice sheets of Greenland ...

the science is pretty clear that it's related to climate change causing the Antarctic to melt at a record pace. According to Meijers, ice shelves have lost around 6,000 billion tons of their mass ...

which combines the amount of sea ice present in the Arctic and Antarctic, hit a new low in early February and remained below the previous record from 2023 for the rest of the month. In particular ...

"We present the first monthly reconstruction for Antarctic sea-ice extent by sector and in total for the entire 20th century, to put the observed changes into historical context," she said.

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

Antarctica is a land of extremes. A continent where temperatures can plummet below -80°F (-62°C), where relentless winds sculpt ice into towering formations and where the only signs of life seem ...

The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published on Monday that warned of "severe" climate consequences.

Over the past decade, ice loss in densely populated regions like Europe has accelerated at an increasingly rapid pace.

Antarctic sea ice has again fallen to a near-record low as a new study shows the system is undergoing a significant "structural change". Scientists have been using satellite images over the past ...

Melting Antarctic ice is weakening the world’s strongest ocean current, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, according to research published in the journal Environmental Research Letters on Monday.

By the turn of this century, the ice continent was receiving more than 10,000 annual visitors: Antarctic tourism had gone mainstream. What does it look like today? Most Antarctic tourists travel ...