Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Scientists ...

Melting glaciers can raise sea levels, threaten coastal cities, and disrupt weather patterns worldwide. Scientists are racing ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Deep beneath the Antarctic seas lies a hidden network of 332 colossal submarine canyons, some plunging over 4,000 meters, revealed in unprecedented detail by new high-resolution mapping. These ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

This undated image shows chunks of ice in the North Cove in Antarctica. (Michael Shortt/British Antarctic Survey via AP) (CN) — A saltier, warmer ocean likely sounds inviting — unless you’re a penguin ...

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...

Researchers have discovered a dramatic and unexpected shift in the Southern Ocean, with surface water salinity rising and sea ice in steep decline. Since 2015, Antarctica has lost sea ice equal to the ...