The Southern Ocean exists in a state of precarious balance. The sea is layered, with cold surface water sitting atop ...

Antarctica could be completely ice-free one day if we allow climate change to continue unabated. The change will take ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat surfaces formed over 80 million years ago before Antarctica froze. These hidden ...

New research explores the wide-ranging consequences of record low summer sea ice in Antarctica. From more ocean warming to ...

Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater ...

Sea ice loss – especially in the Arctic but also in the Antarctic – is one of the clearest signals of global warming, the National Climate Assessment reported in 2018.

Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding throughout the U.S., and globally, and is expected to increase in the coming decades. Adaptation to reduce the destructiveness of ...

Rising temperatures are causing water to evaporate and driving humans to extract more groundwater, which is moving freshwater ...