In an ever-warming climate, ripple effects or chain reactions could lead to altered weather patterns across the globe thanks to a melting Antarctic ice sheet, a new study says. The study, published in ...

Scientists were shocked this month when a research station in Antarctica reported extraordinarily warm weather. The temperature at Concordia Research station atop Dome C on the Antarctic Plateau – ...

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there impacts the world well beyond the coast — influencing weather patterns and food ...

Antarctica, once a frozen polar desert, is now experiencing rainfall due to rising global temperatures. This shift, particularly on the warming Antarctic Peninsula, accelerates glacier melt, threatens ...

It’s been a strange stretch for the icy desert at the bottom of the world. In mid-March, temperatures in parts of East Antarctica soared 70 degrees Fahrenheit above average. It was high enough for ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier may be considered small, but the amount of ice it has lost in record time is a really big deal. The glacier is about 115 square miles (or roughly the size of Philadelphia ...