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

I'm part of a large group of scientists who set out to explore the consequences of summer sea ice loss after the record lows of 2022 and 2023. Together we rounded up the latest publications, then ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers ...

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 ...

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

BUFFALO, N.Y. — How much sea level rise will coastal communities have to contend with by the end of the century, and beyond? Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding ...

Scientists have discovered a long-lost landscape that's been preserved beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet for 30 million years. Erosion by ancient rivers appears to have carved large, flat surfaces ...

Over the past four summers, Antarctic sea ice extent has hit new lows. I'm part of a large group of scientists who set out to explore the consequences of summer sea ice loss after the record lows ...

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

How much sea level rise will coastal communities have to contend with by the end of the century, and beyond? Melt from the Earth’s ice sheets is already contributing to flooding throughout the U.S., ...