A breakthrough study has uncovered that the Southern Ocean's power to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere fluctuates ...

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 ...

When winter comes to Antarctica, seals and Adélie penguins leave the freezing shores and head for the edge of the forming sea ...

In the last few decades, the Arctic sea ice has receded ever further, including increasingly in winter when the extent of sea ...

When ice gets trapped on land as giant ice sheets, it causes the sea level to change, but it doesn’t change by the same ...

Emperor penguin chicks face a tough challenge at just six months old. Their parents leave them to fend for themselves, and ...

Ice Age sea levels exposed vast plains supporting rich ecosystems and hunters.Knysna Cave reveals continuous human use, tool ...

To learn about how polar ice sheets melted during an ancient era, scientists examined fossil coral reefs in the tropics.

Changes could ripple through ecosystems further afield with the potential to affect key fisheries in the Southern Ocean, ...

The craziness of the whole endeavor is only matched by the urgency with which they believe something must be done to address sea ice loss.

The wind, having tumbled down 4,000 feet of elevation from the domed summit of the ice sheet hundreds of miles to the west, ...