About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

Scientists have discovered that the Antarctic ice sheet witnessed a rapid collapse thousands of years ago. This was also ...

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The Southern Ocean, encircling Antarctica and extending northwards to about 60° south latitude, contains some of the world’s richest polar marine living ...

Hidden beneath the pristine white surface of Antarctica and Greenland lies an invisible crisis. While most people imagine ice melts from the top down when warmed by sun and air, the reality is far ...

Arctic Amplification Drives Extreme Regional Warming The Arctic is warming approximately three times faster than the global mean, a phenomenon termed Arctic Amplification. 8 times faster than the ...

New findings challenge climate models by revealing the Southern Ocean's unexpected, but also transient, resilience as a carbon sink.

As the world's largest bear, and largest land carnivore, polar bears are impressive mammals and are adapted to living in the ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s future as the climate warms.

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...