Antarctica

Scientists discover the largest fish breeding colony to date in the Antarctic and explore how the nests affect the surrounding ecosystem.

By simulating the Antarctic Ice Sheet's fragile future under rising temperatures, scientists have found concerning tipping points that drastically change how much ice is lost.

At a research station in East Antarctica, scientists recorded something unprecedented for the frozen continent: a heatwave.

The frozen desert of Antarctica is not exactly a place you would want to call home. But under its surface lies an unexplored, watery world of subglacial lakes and rivers stretching for millions of square miles, the ice above exerting enough pressure to…

by Jordan Wilkerson figures by Michael Gerhardt When someone asks you to consider the impacts of climate change, what do you think of? There’s a good chance that melting ice sheets comes to mind pretty quickly. For that reason, a recent finding…