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

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

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

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

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 ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level rise.

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

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

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

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

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...