To optimists, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report was a relief: 2030 still seemed enough time for humanity ...

The NSIDC monitors the extent of sea ice across the globe and estimates that the annual minimum sea ice coverage in the Antarctic was about 1.98 million square kilometers or 764 thousand square miles.

“The discovery offers new insights into how ecosystems function beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice sheet,” SOI said in a press release. Usually, nutrients from the surface trickle ...

4/14/25 (LAPost.com) — A colossal iceberg named A-84 – comparable in size to Chicago – calved from the George VI Ice Shelf on Jan. 13, unveiling a seafloor area previously concealed for decades.

Researchers aboard the RSV Nuyina are on a two-month mission to better understand a massive Antarctic glacier. Australian Antarctic Division Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and ...

Midnight Sun, also known as Polar Day, is a fascinating natural phenomenon that occurs during the summer months in regions located north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle.

Cook next proceeded along an easterly course, then turned abruptly south, and on January 17th, 1773, was the first person to cross the antarctic circle. Cook continued his travels, the line of ...