Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deception Island, Antarctica. Look out over Antarctica in the summer, and time seems frozen. The South Pole's midnight sun appears ...

Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the circulation of deep ocean water with vast implications for the global climate and for marine life, a new study warns.

Scientists are sounding the alarm about sudden and dramatic changes unfolding across Antarctica. The icy continent, once thought to respond only slowly to climate shifts, is showing signs of rapid ...

Antarctica’s ice sheet has been adding mass since 2020, gaining roughly 68 gigatons per year over a four-year span even as ...

A stretch of Antarctic sea ice roughly the size of Montana failed to refreeze during the Southern Hemisphere’s 2026 winter, ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from Australian scientists shows that melting Antarctic ice shelves and changing sea ...

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath the Antarctic ice shelves that are causing aggressive ...

Antarctica is at risk of abrupt and potentially irreversible changes to the continent's ice, ocean and ecosystems that could have profound implications for Australia and beyond, unless urgent action ...

Schematic illustration of the lagged influence of spring (SON) positive SAM on February Antarctic sea ice over the Weddell Sea and Ross Sea after 1998. These processes are primarily mediated by the ...