Antarctica, the world's most remote, harsh and pristine continent, is not free from marine pollution. Where human activity ...
Researchers uncover the causes behind record-low Antarctic sea ice in 2023 and 2024, linking warm oceans and winds to the ...
Geoscientists have created a new climate record for early Antarctic ice ages. It reveals that the early Antarctic ice sheet melted more rapidly than previously thought.
Scientists found liquid water — and, surprisingly, life — at the bottom of a frozen Antarctic lake.
Amid all the changes in Earth's climate, sea ice in the stormy Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was, for a long time, an ...
Lake Enigma sits between two glaciers, Amorphous and Boulder Clay, in Antarctica’s Northern Foothills. Given the area’s ...
Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists ...
The luxury trip aboard the Swan Hellenic's SH Diana was supposed to be the cruise of a lifetime for the 170 passengers but ...
The Conger Ice Shelf disintegrated in 2022. Satellite data leading up to the collapse hint at worrying changes in a supposedly stable ice sheet.
If all our fear and uncertainty over climate change could be distilled into a single statistic, then arguably it was delivered to an emergency summit on the future of the Antarctic last month.
The Antarctic Treaty was established in 1959, which designates Antarctica for peaceful scientific research, prohibits ...
Beyond being a home for microbes, the plastisphere can disrupt the natural balance of ocean life at the microscopic level.