New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate ...

Unusually strong winds and warm ocean water likely drove a rapid plunge in Antarctic sea ice in recent years, scientists said ...

Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed ...

Bacteria living in the barren, ice-free soils of Antarctica have found a way to endure months of freezing darkness without ...

Bacteria living in Antarctica’s barren desert soils have developed a survival strategy that defies conventional biology: they ...

When scientists look at the effects of a warming planet on wildlife, the news is almost universally grim. Animals and plants ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

The climate change-fueled demise of one of Antarctica’s largest icebergs has ironically fueled a surge in nature’s ...

An eight-week voyage to the bottom of the Earth helped the photojournalist Chang W. Lee better understand his late father.

Picture a frozen colossus drifting silently through icy waters, big enough to blanket London twice over. That's iceberg A23a.