Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, ...

Weather forecasts in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) are generally less accurate than those in the Northern Hemisphere because ...

Coverage falls a million square kilometres short of long-term average with global heating likely driving losses ...

The carbon sequestration potential of open-ocean pelagic ecosystems is vastly under-reported compared to coastal vegetation ‘blue carbon’ systems. Here we show that just a single pelagic harvested ...

Cryospheric science is the interdisciplinary study of permafrost, snow and ice, primarily on the surface of the Earth, but also on other planets and moons. The cryosphere is an integral part of the ...

Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge cultured cells from the Antarctic spiny ...

This particle telescope, embedded in the Antarctic ice, gives scientists insight into important phenomena.

When penguin colonies are surrounded by sea ice, the penguins tend to eat more fish, rather than krill. And colonies that eat ...

Winter 2023's Antarctic sea ice was at its lowest level since satellite measurements began. A new study shows how unlikely this would be without man-made factors. For decades, scientists have gathered ...

Antarctica's Tourism Boom Raises Concerns About Contamination and Disease BRUSSELS (AP) — Driven in part by fears that the frozen landscapes of Antarctica may be irreversibly melting away because of ...

People strolling through Downtown McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Credit: Eli Duke/Wikimedia Commons. A small experiment involving Antarctic winterers found that months of intense social contact and ...

Vernadsky research base, the Ukrainian Antarctic station at Marina Point on Galindez Island in the Argentine Islands, Antarctica. (Photo by: Sergio Pitamitz / VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty ...