Astrobiologist Dale Andersen headed back in Antarctica at Lake Untersee in January-February 2026 for another field season of ...

Unusually strong winds and warm ocean water likely drove a rapid plunge in Antarctic sea ice in recent years, scientists said on Wednesday, shedding new light on a puzzling event."During the winter ...

The rapid climate change we are experiencing today is mainly driven by the greenhouse gases we humans keep releasing into the air.

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

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 ...

Scientists spent the first weeks of the year on an expedition to Antarctica to study Thwaites Glacier, which is melting at an alarming rate. If it breaks apart entirely, it could push up global sea ...

The plight of the emperor penguin might be more dire than previously thought. For the first time, scientists have used ...

As the partial government shutdown stretches into its fourth week, major airline executives are pressing Congress to resolve the stalemate.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Antarctic ozone hole closed early in 2025 after one of the shortest seasons in decades, reflecting long-term recovery of the ozone layer.