Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

At the bottom of the world lies a region as magnificent as it is misunderstood: Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. Harsh, ...

The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

The recent flooding in Texas was a catastrophe. The US National Weather Service provided warnings and forecasts before the ...

A top climate scientist says we may have crossed a dangerous tipping point in Antarctica—and the long-term fallout could be ...

She also aims to enhance the precision of very high-resolution satellite imagery for monitoring Adélie penguin colonies in ...

A new study reveals that bird endemism in Antarctica and the southern hemisphere is underestimated, highlighting their unique ...

Antarctica has hidden beneath its great mantle of ice and snow an impressive geological feature among many other things. This ...

Researchers measuring the salinity of the Southern Ocean did find unexpected results, but some online reports got the details ...

Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

Antarctic sea ice began to change rapidly in 2015 and 2016. Since then it has remained well below the long-term average.