Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

Antarctica may appear to be an endless expanse of ice, but beneath its frozen surface lies a complex and dramatic landscape ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

A study co-lead by Irina Gorodetskaya, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center of Marine and Environmental Research, ...

Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...

President Donald Trump has begun eroding the United States presence in Antarctica by announcing deep funding cuts to his ...

Penguins could be playing a crucial role in stabilizing the climate in Antarctica when they go No. 2, according to new ...

A new report published in the Journal for Sustainable Tourism suggests Antarctic tourist numbers could almost quadruple to ...

New research shows that penguin guano in Antarctica is an important source of ammonia aerosol particles that help drive the ...

The researchers further demonstrated that the ammonia kicks off an atmospheric chain reaction. Out at sea, tiny plantlike ...

Geologists confirmed the existence of a hidden continent named Zealandia beneath the South Pacific Ocean. Covering ...