For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

For years, scientists have warned that melting Antarctic ice could push sea levels dangerously higher by the end of this ...

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

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking faster than expected. New research shows how winds, ocean heat, and feedback loops caused this ...

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

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data ...

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

Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Driven in part by fears that the frozen landscapes of Antarctica may be irreversibly melting away because of ...

A common route is to voyage south from Argentina toward Antarctica before heading north up the coast of Africa — the same ...