Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

Antarctica is losing about 136 billion tonnes of ice per year, with Greenland almost double that, at 267 billion tonnes, says NASA. These two ice sheets hold two thirds of the freshwater on Earth, and ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there ...

Antarctica is the world’s southernmost and least-populated continent… Unless you count its colonies of penguins, which are ...

UN weather agency issues ‘red alert’ on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023 The U.N. weather agency is sounding a "red alert" about global warming, citing record ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Whether it's rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock ... and climate models and better ... Model of Antarctica's Water Enhances Sea Level Forecasts Feb. 11 ...

Today will be warm, with highs ranging from the 70s south to around 80 north. A mix of sun and clouds are in the forecast all day but most of us will stay dry for Earth Day! Thanks to the stalled ...

Half an hour east of Austin, past the airport, the clogged-up traffic starts to melt away and the plains ... of a couch near a display of company T-shirts, while a few children scurried back ...

A major embayment in West Antarctica saw new sea ice growth in autumn 2025 amid older sea ice that had survived the austral summer melt season. As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its ...