Coastal communities worldwide face a slow-moving but potentially irreversible threat from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where ...

A record-breaking T. rex goes up for auction as a long-lost Antarctic fossil resurfaces. What dinosaur bones tell us about a ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier lost roughly 25 kilometers of grounded ice between January 2022 and March 2023, setting the ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

"Our results show that climate change made the retreat of the Pine Island Glacier substantially worse,” the lead author said.

Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area ...

An Antarctic wind farm moved to protect penguins, and today more than 29,000 breeding pairs thrive near the research station.

Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition aboard the ship ‘Terra Nova’ and Ernest Shackleton led one from the ship ‘Quest’—but ...

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice—frozen seawater that expands ...

There’s a greater need than ever to understand how climate change in Antarctica will have global consequences – but research if getting more difficult.

Weddell seal pups living in the Antarctic need to learn how to hold their breath and get in and out of the water.

A draft law on Antarctic activities and environmental protection entered its second review on Tuesday, strengthening legal safeguards for the continent's fragile ecosystem as China enhances its role ...