Its Professor Julio Escudero complex on King George Island is where dozens of researchers are measuring the effects of climate change on native flora and fauna. "We need to quantify the change to ...

is getting faster due to climate change. At least, that's the finding a new study that examined the past 5.3 million years of this polar ocean vortex's behavior, using sediment cores samples take ...

A keystone prey species in the Southern Ocean is retreating towards the Antarctic because of climate change. Krill are small, shrimp-like creatures that swarm in vast numbers and form a major part ...

Antarctica is losing an average of 252 billion tons of ice per year. Sea level has been higher in the past; the last time global average air temperatures were similar to what they are today, sea level ...

The map, known as Bedmap3, provides valuable and worrying new insight into how Antarctica might respond to the warming climate. Study leader Dr Hamish Pritchard, a glaciologist at BAS, said ...

Its deterioration, due to threats "associated with human population growth" such as overfishing, pollution, "accelerating climate change" due to an increase in greenhouse gases such ... it would ...

Climate change refers to the shift in the Earth ... When ice on land melts, like glaciers or ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland, the water runs off into the sea, which causes sea levels ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A first-of-its-kind study suggests the ongoing melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet ... from the frozen continent might counteract climate change-driven ocean warming around New Zealand ...

Their paper, "A 21st-century structural change in Antarctica's sea ice system," is published in Communications Earth & Environment. Lead author Professor Marilyn Raphael, of the University of ...