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 ...

A popular climate theory suggested that melting Antarctic glaciers would release iron into the ocean, sparking algae blooms that pull carbon dioxide from the air. New field data from West Antarctica ...

Antarctica has long been defined by what can be seen on its surface, vast ice sheets, extreme cold, and an apparent emptiness that hides a far more complex reality below. A newly developed map is now ...

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 ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ice that is 130,000 years old. The goal of the French duo is to better ...