Imagine a place where wilderness meets whimsy, where mountaineers and artists share coffee at the same counter, and where the view of Denali is so spectacular it makes your smartphone camera have an ...

Fossil egg found in Antarctica suggests marine reptiles laid eggs, challenging previous beliefs about ancient life.

On December 15, a football-field-sized balloon took flight over Antarctica, embarking on a mission that could reshape our ...

A team of researchers has pinpointed the communities that are likely to be the most affected by sea-level rise.

About 68-million-years ago, during the Late Cretaceous, a giant fossil egg was laid in Antarctica. The excavated remains ...

Swirling underwater eddies are aggressively melting two Antarctic glaciers, a recent study found, including the one that could raise sea levels by multiple feet.

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that helped release long-stored carbon back into the atmosphere. Deep-sea ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

A large cylindrical coring device is deployed vertically into the seafloor and recovered to obtain sediment cores. Credit: The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) ...

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean ...