Antarctica’s most watched glacier sits at the edge of a vast ice sheet, holding back enough frozen water to redraw the ...

Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work ...

Anthropogenic warming is projected to intensify disproportionately in polar regions relative to the global average -- a ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Ice Sheet Records Surprising Mass Gain Between 2021 and 2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass at an average rate of ...

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Relay Station, an unmanned weather station in the interior of East Antarctica. Unmanned stations are designed to survive Antarctic temperatures below -70°C and have revealed the main cause of warming ...

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience summer melting spikes, when sea ice retreats and warm ocean water flows ...

As visitor numbers climb and warnings of environmental risks mount, it remains to be seen whether new rules will be introduced, or if Antarctica will remain a frontier for high-carbon adventure ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. ANTARCTICA (AP) — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn't ...