A new science briefing from an international research team can’t rule out some of the worst-case sea level rise scenarios, ...

An atmospheric river brought warm, moist air to the coldest and dryest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 ...

The 11 th Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research conference was held in Pucón, Chile August 19-23, 2024. Fifteen-hundred ...

which has been melting the ice from below. Antarctica can seem like a faraway place, but human activities that warm the planet – such as burning fossil fuels – are having dramatic effects at ...

The study’s lead author, Dr Hannah Dawson, explained that increasing rubbish in the oceans provides more opportunities for these species to hitch a ride to Antarctica. "We knew that kelp could ...

A slew of recent research suggests Antarctica’s ice may be melting in alarming new ways, meaning the sea level rise forecast might be vastly underestimated. If Antarctica’s ice sheet were to ...

Gideon Rachman That was António Guterres speaking to the United Nations last year. Few would dispute his argument that the ...

Experts differ over whether the melting of the world's largest iceberg, A23a, will accelerate since it started spinning after being caught in a vortex in Antarctica. A23a broke away from the ...

The probes are aimed at providing more accurate data gauging the rate at which warming ocean water around Antarctica is melting the continent’s coastal ice, allowing scientists to improve ...

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record ...

The probes are aimed at providing more accurate data gauging the rate at which warming ocean water around Antarctica is melting the continent's coastal ice, allowing scientists to improve computer ...