The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models ...

The rapid decline in Antarctic sea ice — coupled with the loss of multi-year ice and destabilisation of glaciers such as ...

Climate models have long predicted that global warming would weaken the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). Yet decades of ...

A whopping 300 water canyons have been discovered by researchers across Antarctica - some reaching the depths of 4,000 meters ...

In one of Earth’s driest, most harsh environments, scientists uncovered a micro-miracle. Down in Fumarole Bay on Deception ...

Scientists used radar to find hidden layers under Antarctica’s ice, revealing ancient sediments, buried landscapes, and warm ...

Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the ...

In 2018, Chile and Argentina proposed the creation of a marine protected area on the Antarctic Peninsula to safeguard key ...

For decades, researchers seeking to understand global climate change have analyzed ice cores drilled deep within the ...

New advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming the way scientists explore and understand some of the most ...

The Northern Hemisphere is absorbing more sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere, and clouds can no longer keep the balance.

When the planet was heating up at the end of the last Ice Age, ice-melt flooded out by glaciers made oceans rise. Scientists for decades believed that most meltwater had originated from Antarctica.