The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks ...

Research, cruise and fishing vessels are all reporting a ... Scientists consider the behaviour of Antarctic sea-ice to be a complicated phenomenon which cannot simply be ascribed to climate ...

Paid and presented by International Science Council. As witnesses to a changing climate over millennia, the Antarctic ice sheets are a unique record for studying past climate change informing ...

The wildlife of Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are under increasing threat, according to a report released at ...

Ice defines the white continent and its surrounding ocean – only 2% of Antarctica is free of it, with ninety percent of the world’s entire stock of ice locked up on the frozen continent.

Over the next decades to centuries, will melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS)—Earth's largest ice mass—cause global sea level to rise by five meters, two meters or less? It's a difficult ...

Scientists say they now have a better idea of exactly where and when the margin of Antarctica started melting. They've traced the changing shapes of bumps on the ice surface that mark locations ...

Antarctica’s sea ice – the frozen seawater that forms on the ocean's surface – reached an historic low at the end of the 2024 southern winter for the second year running. Figures from ...

Antarctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, clocking in at the second lowest in a record stretching back to 1979, according to provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice ...

Antarctica, which is nearly four times the size of the United States, is almost entirely covered by a miles-thick layer of ...