As long as natural CO₂ doesn’t surface from the deep ocean, the Southern Ocean can continue to absorb anthropogenic CO₂, a ...

The stratospheric polar vortex high above Antarctica has rapidly heated up. These sudden bursts of heat can bring rapid weather changes in Australia ...

In a study published Sept. 10, improved technology indicated that ice loss in western Antarctica is driven primarily by ...

At the end of September, cold air at high altitudes above Antarctica had soared to more than 60 degrees above normal. It is a ...

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

As reported by Oceanographic, researchers who met in London in September fear that these impacts may soon be pushing us close ...

When temperatures sink well below zero and the ground freezes solid, most animals head for shelter or migrate somewhere ...

Antarctica has long been known as one of the most forbidding areas on earth, thanks to an inhospitable environment and a lack of any native inhabitants — well, human ones anyway. But there are ...

Three staff members from a United States research base in Antarctica were medically evacuated to New Zealand during extreme cold and dark conditions amid the southern winter, New Zealand’s air force ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere in the coming months ...

Antarctica is by far the coldest area on the planet. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was recorded at Vostok, the Russian Antarctica research station in July 1983, when the temperature ...