Antarctica is shedding ice, heat, and stability in ways that are no longer confined to obscure scientific journals or distant satellite feeds. The continent’s frozen edge is now revealing fresh ...

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As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023, a dramatic reversal from decades of loss. Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall. The ...

An otherworldly view of a snowy landscape in Antarctica has been captured at the South Pole. Lending a lunar feel, the video shows the camera moving across a seemingly endless, vast bed of cloud-like ...

The Arctic and Antarctic are, fittingly, polar opposites. The first is an ocean surrounded by continents, the second a continent surrounded by an ocean. In the one, communities of indigenous people ...

Antarctica may be remote, but it hasn’t escaped the scans of Google Street View. If you digitally drop into McMurdo Station, the U.S.’s busiest Antarctic installation, and slide along the volcanic ...