Emperor penguins seem to be vanishing by the thousands during their most vulnerable period, when they must shed and regrow their feathers on stable ice.

An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

A new study shows Antarctica’s biggest ice losses are happening at a few weak coastal gateways where glaciers are retreating inland.

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

Three decades of satellite observations reveal how warming ocean water is pushing some Antarctic glaciers further inland.

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...

Deep beneath Antarctica’s ice, scientists have uncovered a geological archive that could reshape predictions of future sea-level rise.

Antarctica’s frozen frontier is retreating, and the scale is far greater than many realize. Over the last several years, ...

In recent months, headlines about Antarctica’s ice loss have circulated widely. One claim says the continent has lost an area of ice equal to ten cities the size of Los Angeles over the past three ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...

A rare deep-field Antarctic flight campaign has uncovered unexpected aerosol concentrations over the continent’s interior.

From above, Antarctica looks simple. Just a massive white continent at the bottom of the world. Endless ice. Endless cold. For centuries, explorers and ...