When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...
The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades, NASA and NOAA officials say.
The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...
A leathery fossil unearthed from Antarctic sediment is overturning core ideas about how Earth’s dominant marine reptiles ...
Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier,' Thwaites, is collapsing faster than anticipated, threatening catastrophic sea level rise.
While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on ...
Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...
Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier ...
When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach -40°C or lower in the interior, with the lowest ever temperature on Earth ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - When polar explorer Robert Swan leads his Ice Station Expedition to Antarctica in December, Big ...
Working in Antarctica comes with risks most people never imagine. Because brutal winters make evacuation impossible for ...