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 ...

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

The Arctic is losing ice—fast. To better predict the future, scientists headed to the North’s last bastion of multiyear sea ...

Ecolution is the RTÉ climate change podcast for young people. On this episode we head to Greenland to look at melting sea ice and rising sea levels.

The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

Glaciers melting rapidly, fields of moss expanding, water streaming off ice shelves once frozen solid: these are just a few ...

Researchers led by Professor Erin McClymont, from our Department of Geography, are examining the beautiful Antarctic seabird, the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea). Their goal is to reconstruct changes in ...

New research has revealed that emperor penguins are experiencing a faster-than-expected decline due to shrinking Antarctic ...

Because of melting sea ice, it is likely that more polar bears will soon starve, warns a new study that discovered the large carnivores need to eat 60 percent more than anyone had realized.