For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

Warmer ocean temperatures are causing melting in Antarctica's ice shelves, posing an overlooked threat to global coastlines ...

Swipe Down for Full Video Story Beneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheet lies one of the most mysterious and least explored ...

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking faster than expected. New research shows how winds, ocean heat, and feedback loops caused this ...

An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications for global ...

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It provides a resting place for seals and walruses and acts as an 'engine' for ocean currents. And its vast whiteness also reflects sunlight back to space to help keep our planet cool – a weapon in ...

A research team at the Sars Centre in Norway and the University Vienna has shed new light on the evolutionary origin of the head. In a study published in the journal PLoS Biology they show that in a ...