Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Sharpe was joined by Maya Thomas of Virginia Institute of Marine Science and Abby Tomita of Oregon State University. The ...

Crowds of tourists bound for Antarctica have brought prosperity to Argentina’s southernmost city, but the boom is also ...

The Bedmap3 from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the most detailed depiction ever captured of the southernmost ...

On January 13, when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s immense George VI Ice Shelf, scientists in a nearby research vessel did something nobody had ever done.

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales ...

US President Donald Trump has slashed tens of millions in emergency funds, says a senior former diplomat who wrote state policy for the white continent. As China and Russia announce plans to build new ...

But with global heating and climate change wreaking havoc on the ice caps of Antarctica, researchers are looking to a new map of the south polar region to better map global warming changes and ...

An excerpt from the upcoming book “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future” offers new details about why OpenAI’s board briefly fired CEO Sam Altman back in 2023 ...

Throughout Antarctica, sea ice cover is very low this year – a reminder of the serious and unprecedented changes to Earth's climate happening all around us.' The new maps and data published ...

With six months of continual darkness, sub-zero conditions and supreme isolation, the Antarctic is the perfect setting for a horror flick in which the environment drives inhabitants to madness.

An international research team deployed the unmanned submarine named ‘Ran’ beneath thick Antarctic ice. After that, things got weird. They captured the first detailed maps of a glacier’s underside, ...