Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said ...

Antarctica's Southern Ocean is one of the most demanding places on Earth when it comes to survival. Its waters plunge below ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about sudden and dramatic changes unfolding across Antarctica. The icy continent, once ...

Satellite observations have documented a pronounced decline in Antarctic sea ice extent since 2014, with especially sharp ...

East Antarctica’s interior is warming faster than coasts, driven by Indian Ocean changes, raising global sea level risks.

Right now, cold air high above Antarctica is up to 35ºC warmer than normal. Normally, strong winds and the lack of sun would keep the temperature at around –55°C. But it's risen sharply to around ...

Scientists studying Antarctica have discovered that northerly winds—not westerlies—are driving major ice loss in West Antarctica.

We all know that climate change is slowly causing massive changes to our world. What you might not know is that those changes are more extensive than just rising sea levels. In fact, research has ...

Scientists using ESA’s CryoSat satellite uncovered 85 new subglacial lakes in Antarctica, showing how hidden water networks ...

Russian scientist Mikhail V. Nazarkin has added a new species to the scientific record, four decades after it was fished from the freezing waters of Eastern Antarctica.

The teeming life in the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica, contributes to brightening the clouds that form there, according to a new study. The clouds are bright because of their high density ...

Due to global warming, a deep ocean current around Antarctica that has been relatively stable for thousands of years could head for "collapse" over the next few decades. Such a sudden shift could ...