East Antarctica’s interior is warming at a startling pace, powered by shifting ocean conditions that drive warm air inland. Long overlooked, this icy heart may hold the key to future sea level rise.

Most of Earth's fresh water is locked in the ice that covers Antarctica. As the ocean and atmosphere grow warmer, that ice is ...

A new study warns that irreversible changes happening in Antarctica, which are caused by climate change, could cause global oceans to rise by meters.

Antarctica's biological systems are also undergoing sudden shifts. Ecosystems both under the sea and on land are being ...

Researchers often describe Thwaites as the cork to the West Antarctic Ice Sheet’s ready-to-drain bottle because it acts as a ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

Beneath Antarctica's vast expanse of ice sit hundreds of canyons, some up to tens of thousands of feet deep. These complex ...

Scientists say there is emerging evidence of abrupt and potentially unstoppable changes in the Antarctic environment, ...

Over the past year, several studies about highly dangerous signals of Antarctica on the edge of major abrupt change have appeared in scholarly ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the ...

Shifts in different facets of Antarctica's climate system amplify each other and accelerate the pace of warming globally as well - Copyright Louisiana State ...

Two UMass Amherst professors join a group of climate scientists in a scientific paper calling out "untested" and "dangerous" ...