Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

Far beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists are mapping a landscape that looks less like a frozen desert and more like an ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

A high-end expedition cruise vessel, the Scenic Eclipse II, received assistance from the heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star ...

The sea ice surrounding Antarctica has increased in extent and concentration from the late 1970s, when satellite-based measurements began, until 2015. This behavior has presented a conundrum for ...

Scientists have issued a dire warning about the West Antarctic Ice Sheet that is on the verge of collapsing. According to a study, the ice mass that covers around 760,000 square miles of area is ...

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban flagged growing concerns within the insurance sector on Thursday as new research reveals Antarctic ice loss may have reached a dangerous tipping point with far-reaching ...

Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the western Antarctic peninsula in 2016 - Copyright AFP/File EITAN ABRAMOVICH Ice floating on the surface of the sea in the ...