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

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

Deep within Antarctica’s Ellsworth Mountains, a pyramid-shaped peak has intrigued scientists ... be a man-made structure ...

There's an entire mountain range as big as the European Alps completely hidden under Antarctica's ice that no one has ever ...

Antarctica is home to over 100 volcanoes, many of which lie hidden beneath the ice sheet, particularly along the western coast. While some of these volcanoes peak above the ice, many are buried ...

Scientists reveal new discoveries about a mystery that has remained hidden beneath Antarctic ice for half a billion years.

Artificial intelligence sea ice forecasting systems could help predict and protect the migration routes of endangered caribou ...

The region has warmed at several times the global average, and while sea ice in the Arctic usually reaches its annual peak each March ... not been observed in the Antarctic, researchers say ...

The five lowest amounts for winter peak Arctic sea ice have been since 2015. Earlier this month, Antarctica came close to breaking a record for record low sea ice — this is the time of year the region ...

Credit: Carbon Brief The melt season for Antarctic sea ice began with its winter maximum of 17.2m km2 on 19 September 2024. This was 1.6m km2 smaller than the 1981-2010 average maximum and the ...