A 2021 satellite photo captured rare, wispy streaks of ice stretching across an ocean channel separating the Ronne Ice Shelf ...

Airliners go just about everywhere in the world, but despite advances in air travel, there's still one place that a ...

The dramatic loss of sea ice around Antarctica has occurred with the re-emergence of the Maud Rise polynya in the Weddell Sea ...

Australian ultrarunner Donna Urquhart battled sub-zero temperatures and ferocious winds, as she broke the world record for the longest-ever run in Antarctica.

In the remote and hostile realm of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, powerful winds known as low-level jets (LLJs) race over its coastal regions, including both the Thwaites and Pine ...

Because winds flow between those highs and lows, warming affects the broad patterns of winds across the globe. In West Antarctica, warming is shifting a key band of winds southward and making it ...

Shifting, strengthening winds will help to counteract future sea-level rise in Antarctica—and by doing so, they may help stabilize ice sheets on some parts of the southern continent.

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For the past month, a rare atmospheric phenomenon has been brewing above Antarctica, raising temperatures in the upper atmosphere by 40 degrees and threatening to reverse the direction of a ...

John Turner and Josefino Comiso call for a coordinated push to crack the baffling rise and fall of sea ice around Antarctica. So it came as a surprise to scientists when on 1 March 2017, Antarctic ...

Since Antarctica lacks airports with proper infrastructure, and the nearest airport with adequate maintenance facilities is over 2,400 miles away, even planes with high ETOPS ratings — such as ...