As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

At the end of September, cold air at high altitudes above Antarctica had soared to more than 60 degrees above normal. It is a ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere ...

Right now, cold air high above Antarctica is up to 35ºC warmer than normal. Normally, strong winds and the lack of sun would keep the temperature at around –55°C. But it's risen sharply to around ...

In the Antarctic winter, this upper atmosphere normally stays near –55°C, held by strong polar winds and the absence of ...

The northerly winds, which blow with force in Antarctica, were rearranging the sea ice surrounding Antarctica, capping off small but important gaps called polynyas. "Sea ice is a really good insulator ...

In a study published Sept. 10, improved technology indicated that ice loss in western Antarctica is driven primarily by ...

Antarctica’s winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said ...

Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, observational data actually shows that this ability has seen no ...

Penguins walking across sea ice by a large iceberg in front of Thwaites Ice Shelf, a large, unstable mass of ice that extends from the West Antarctic ice sheet into the sea. Most of the Earth’s fresh ...