Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before — underneath massive ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the extent was larger in 2024 than ...

Recent satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory reveal a concerning trend: Antarctic sea ice has reached its ...

While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

Researchers found Antarctic melt only delays - never prevents - the AMOC’s long decline, with major impacts on weather, seas, and coastlines.

A Dec. 28 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows two maps of Antarctic sea ice dated Dec. 26, 1979, and Dec. 25, 2023. The more recent map seems to show the ice occupying a larger area.