For years, climate models warned that warm deep water around Antarctica could edge closer to the continent’s icy fringe. Now ...

Warm ocean water is moving closer to Antarctica, raising concerns that ice shelves could melt from below and accelerate sea ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great ...

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward ...

Researchers warn Antarctica is undergoing abrupt changes that could trigger global consequences. Melting ice, collapsing ice shelves, and disrupted ocean circulation threaten sea levels, ecosystems, ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

A new decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...

An explorer undertakes a solo Antarctic expedition to document the life beneath the ice. Antarctica, often perceived as barren and lifeless, is in fact a dynamic ecosystem teeming with life. Hosted by ...

“Welcome to Antarctica!” the expedition guide exclaimed as she helped me off the Zodiac. We’d already been to Antarctica for the past few days, seeing various islands off the mainland. We’d even had ...

A comprehensive 30-year study led by University of California, Irvine glaciologists has produced a circumpolar ice grounding line migration map of Antarctica. An amalgamation of three decades of ...