In one of the most remote and harsh environments on Earth, three penguin species are telling a story that’s about much more ...

A process has been discovered beneath the Antarctic ice that could weaken carbon sequestration and accelerate climate change.

Antarctica has surprised scientists with an unusual event: the Hektoria glacier, located on the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, ...

The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

Antarctica is one of the most dangerous places on Earth. Temperatures are extremely low, winds are fierce, and help is far away. Yet scientists are going there to study a rare “Ring of Fire” solar ...

ANTARCTICA (AP) — The Southern Ocean is one of the most remote places on Earth, but that doesn't mean it is tranquil. Tumultuous waves that can swallow vessels ensure that the Antarctic Peninsula has ...

Warming temperatures are forcing Antarctic penguins to breed earlier, posing a big problem for two of the cute tuxedoed species that face extinction by the end of the century, a study says. Three ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and ...

Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take thousands of years, but we only have a century to stop it.

A squad of graduate students aboard the icebreaker Araon is getting a crash course in the slow and physical work of ocean exploration.

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 ...

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience summer melting spikes, when sea ice retreats and warm ocean water flows ...