Australia, Antarctica and Empire in the Southern Ocean World, landed in my mailbox on the same day Donald Trump announced ...

Marine ecologist Malin Pinsky explains how record-breaking ocean warming is driving unprecedented shifts in marine life, ...

Jimmy Cornell won our 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. Sam Jefferson caught up with him to discuss a life of adventure on the ...

The recent catastrophic glacier collapse in Switzerland, which obliterated Blatten village, underscores the urgent global crisis of glacial melting due to climate change. As the Dushanbe conference on ...

Antarctica could see a doubling of extreme weather events—such as atmospheric rivers—by 2100, with implications for future ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and 2020, when one-fifth of its associated ice shelf broke off as massive ...

As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing, but Earth's climate would have to change drastically before the continent could support agriculture and permanent settlers.

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more ...

Here’s how it works. Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and it's been that way for around 34 million years.

Canadian scientists recently led their first Antarctic research expedition ... The resulting, high-accuracy maps will support further scientific and oceanographic research, environmental monitoring, ...

Scientists have been warning that Antarctica has been losing ice mass at an alarming rate over the past couple decades. The consequences of which will raise sea levels around the world.

The reason for the rise is reportedly due to an unusual increase in precipitation, particularly in East Antarctica, leading to an accumulation of snow and ice. To put it in perspective ...