Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

BEIJING -- China's first overseas atmospheric background station began operation in Antarctica on Sunday, bolstering global response to climate change. China's Zhongshan National Atmospheric ...

Antarctica is shedding ice, heat, and stability in ways that are no longer confined to obscure scientific journals or distant ...

Polar warming is fueling rising disease burdens, worsening food insecurity, increasing mental health strain, and amplifying ...

Until 2024, spatial limits across four sub-areas of the Antarctic Peninsula region had reduced the risk of concentrated fishing in areas preferred by whales, seals and penguins. The Convention for the ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is Earth's largest oceanic current, circling around Antarctica from west to east in alignment with Earth's rotation. This cold ocean current is driven primarily ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

Scientists have gotten their closest-ever view of the denizens that inhabit a frigid underworld. An analysis of the genetic blueprints of nearly 1,400 microbes sampled from one buried Antarctic lake ...

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents — a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll ...