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Penguins inhabit coastlines and islands across the Southern Hemisphere, from Antarctica to the southernmost regions of South ...

Warming seas and shifting currents are disrupting fisheries, ecosystems and centuries-old food traditions across Japan’s ...

New research shows that warm ocean currents triggered a rapid collapse of part of East Antarctica’s ice sheet 9,000 years ago, offering clues about future sea level rise.

Recent research has led scientists to new conclusions about the fastest melting glacier in Antarctica. Some are reassuring, ...

Off the coast of Japan, one region of the ocean has been rising by nearly an inch every year, right next to another where it ...

Chris Mooney is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a CNN Climate contributor. He is currently a professor of practice in the Environmental Institute at the University of Virginia. Bathtubs and ...

New research reveals how the speed of ocean currents and the shape of the seabed influence the amount of heat flowing underneath Antarctic ice shelves, contributing to melting. Scientists at the ...

A research team led by scientists at Kumamoto University has discovered a new genus of microscopic crustaceans from northern ...

New research that shows warm Atlantic Water was the main driver for large-scale retreat of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS) between 20,300 and 17,600 years ago - when air temperatures were ...

This beach in Kauai may look stunning, but don't let its picturesque setting fool you. Swimming here is incredibly dangerous ...

On November 16, 2025, the Sentinel-6B satellite launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) in California.