Amidst the rapid melting of the planet's ice coverage due to climate change, one continent has lost an amount of grounded ice equivalent to more than 17 times the size of the city of Toronto over thre ...

Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, ...

More than half a mile beneath the surface of Antarctica's Kamb Ice Stream, scientists have uncovered a slow-moving river of ...

A rare aviation mission from Cape Town has offered a glimpse of what it takes to land a passenger jet on the frozen continent ...

New research shows storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rainfall, revealing a major shift in one of Earth’s most important climate systems. Macquarie Island sits in the remote Southern ...

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of US data showed Wednesday, as ...

Heriot-Watt Professor of Emeritus says glass buildings, sealed façades and designs reliant on mechanical ventilation poses a ...