Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, ...
Coverage falls a million square kilometres short of long-term average with global heating likely driving losses ...
Weather forecasts in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) are generally less accurate than those in the Northern Hemisphere because ...
Antarctica’s winter sea ice has reached its third-lowest maximum on record, with scientists confirming that the ice cover ...
China plans to put its scientists in one of the world’s most remotest places, but is its motive science or a geopolitical ...
Researchers at the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge cultured cells from the Antarctic spiny ...
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 ...
Australian scientists are calling for a multimillion-dollar international effort to investigate 'the last unexplored place in ...
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 ...
When penguin colonies are surrounded by sea ice, the penguins tend to eat more fish, rather than krill. And colonies that eat ...
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 ...
Why did an unknown landmass appear in the Antarctic sea, slipping through the 21st-century satellite surveillance network?It ...