In 2015, after decades of relative stability, Antarctica's sea ice suddenly began to disappear. Sea ice extent reached a record low in 2023, and scientists have now figured out what happened in that ...

Sea level rise is an immediate threat caused by climate change and driven in large part by melting glaciers and ice sheets. A ...

Hidden warm-water traps beneath Antarctica may be melting the continent’s ice far faster than scientists realized.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden Antarctic threat that could accelerate global sea level rise far faster than expected.

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

Antarctica is being ravaged by a triple-whammy of climate chaos that has melted sea ice to record lows, a new study has ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...

A new study lays out the best- and worst-case scenarios for a warming Antarctica. Which one becomes reality is entirely up to us. Reading time 3 minutes As carbon emissions push Earth’s temperature ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll ...