A region of Antarctica with some of the greatest potential to reshape the natural world and human society is also the least ...
Climate patterns in the tropics help determine how much snow falls from year to year in Antarctica, one of the coldest, ...
Right now, cold air high above Antarctica is up to 35ºC warmer than normal. Normally, strong winds and the lack of sun would keep the temperature at around –55°C. But it's risen sharply to around ...
Antarctica gained about 695 billion metric tons of ice between July 2021 and April 2023, the largest 22-month mass increase ...
A record-breaking heat wave unfolding at what should be the coldest time in Earth’s coldest place has scientists concerned about what it could mean for the future health of the Antarctic continent, ...
Clouds influence the climate by controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth and by absorbing and emitting heat. Over the Southern Ocean, a region central to regulating Earth’s climate, errors in ...
Much of the U.S. and Europe have been facing record high temperatures and relentless heat domes this summer, but the Earth's most southern continent just recorded a new low temperature. On July 18, ...
Last month, Earth dropped to its coldest temperature in 14 years. Antarctica’s Concordia research station recorded the frigid temperature of –119.4°F (–84.1°C) on July 18. The remote research station ...
Sea-level rise is one of the most visible signs of climate change, one that is threatening low-lying coastal communities ...
Most of the frozen water has vanished because glaciers have been flowing faster into the ocean, rather than because of ...