Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...
Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding ...
As we approach the halfway point of 2026, climate change is worsening. Greenhouse gases are causing the planet to warm ...
In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica ...
An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...
Antarctica’s rapidly receding sea ice could have a negative impact on the food supply of seabirds that breed hundreds of miles away from the continent. Most of the world's albatrosses, and their close ...
The emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal are now considered endangered, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species ...
A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water further north. But our new research shows Antarctica’s melting ice is disrupting this current, putting the continent’s ...
The emperor penguin and Antarctic fur seal are now both Endangered, according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.
Scientists reveal that Antarctica’s ocean current formed slowly and needed winds, ice, and shifting continents to shape Earth’s climate.