An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

Under the ice cover accumulated over thousands of years lies the history of carbon dioxide fluctuations, providing insight ...

a body of water on the Antarctic coast directly south of New Zealand. "In 2022, we had a winter growth season [the period in which ice cover is usually expanding] that no one had ever seen ...

Researchers analyzed satellite imagery and weather data from the region from the Antarctic winter of 2023, when sea ice cover hit a record low. That winter, some regions saw 80 percent less ice ...

The 2024 award for the biggest disjoint between the importance of a story and the coverage it got must surely go to the science briefing on Antarctica and Sea-Level Rise published by the ...

Scientists found that reduced Antarctic sea ice coverage in 2023 caused the ocean to lose extra heat to the atmosphere. That heat loss could disrupt ocean circulation currents and cause more ...