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 ...

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

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea – a huge hole in the sea ice nearly four times the size of Wales, which ...

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 ...

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