Ocean heat, not air temperature, may decide Antarctica’s fate as new models predict widespread ice shelf loss by 2300.

A study published in Nature Climate Change by an international team of scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...

By Francesco De Augustinis The annual meeting of the international body responsible for conservation of the marine ecosystems ...

The main goal of the expedition had been to locate, map, and capture images of the Endurance, the historic ship from Shackleton’s 1915 expedition that sank in the same area. However, during their ...

Antarctica, and the treaty that protects it, have been in the news of late – but for all the wrong reasons, argues Professor ...

More than five miles (eight kilometres) of glacial ice in Antarctica vanished in only two months, retreating 10 times faster ...

We all know that climate change is slowly causing massive changes to our world. What you might not know is that those changes are more extensive than just rising sea levels. In fact, research has ...

Off the Oscar II coast in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula, south way from the mountains, Hektoria Glacier is melting faster than an ice-cream on a hot summer day. Babbling within ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered the reasons behind its rapid retreat and say it raises fears for sea level ...

A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience ...

The Antarctic, or Southern, Ocean is the world’s least-explored and least understood. But a team of scientists in land-locked Boulder has recently made a discovery that may lead to a better ...

The Antarctic region is one of the most pristine wildernesses left on the planet. However, it is facing a number of threats, such as overfishing, pollution and climate change. WWF is working in this ...