Several recent studies also suggest that Antarctic sea ice and ice shelves are becoming more unstable because of trapped ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to ...

Climate change and shifts in the food web are continuing to threaten the survival and reproduction of penguins in Antarctica, ...

The extraordinary aerial photograph captured by NASA on its Earth Observatory site shows the evolution of a “sea of rotating ...

A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship that visited Antarctica has highlighted a growing tourism trend.

Over the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica, winds can whip around the globe relatively unimpeded by land. Intrepid ...

The source of that stench: solidified blocks of 50,000-year-old regurgitated stomach oil from Antarctic Snow Petrels, hunks ...

Rapidly melting ice shelves in Antarctica could trigger global sea levels to rise even faster than expected, scientists have ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, a new study suggests. The reason is that warming oceans appear to be melting Antarctic ice shelves from below much more rapidly than ...

Warm, deep water is shifting closer to Antarctica, threatening ice shelves and altering global ocean circulation, with ...