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, ...

Many of the world's top climate scientists are sounding the alarm over a number of rapid changes currently impacting Antarctica and its vulnerable ecosystems. As global temperatures have steadily ...

Temperatures taken from Antarctica Thursday were the hottest ever recorded for the normally-frigid continent. According to The Washington Post, the temperature was recorded at 65 degrees at the ...

A 23-million-year record hidden beneath Antarctica’s ice may reshape forecasts of how rising temperatures affect global ...

Antarctica, known as the South Pole, is the coldest, windiest and most remote of the seven continents. Its name comes from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, posing a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species ...

New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed ...

GENEVA — The U.N. weather agency said Friday that an Argentine research base on the northern tip of Antarctica is reporting a temperature that, if confirmed, could be a record high for the icy ...

Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, posing a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study says. Three ...