Antarctica logged a new high temperature record of 64.94 degrees Fahrenheit (18.3 Celsius) in 2020, scientists with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed this week. The temperature, ...

The polar ice cap is a unique chemical archive of Earth's atmosphere. Data collected from the ice could pin down a puzzling problem in the science of global warming: How greenhouse gases have ...

In a remarkable discovery, scientists have uncovered a vast tapestry of life, ancient landscapes, volcanoes, and geological life under the million-year-old ice of Antarctica, the fifth largest ...

Antarctic Ice Sheet mass change series (April 2002–December 2023) derived from GRACE/GRACE-FO satellite gravimetry. Ellipses highlight period-specific mass change rates, while the grey shadow ...

USA Today -- The last remaining section of Antarctica's Larsen B ice shelf, which partially collapsed in 2002, is quickly weakening and likely to disintegrate completely by 2020, said a new study out ...

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April 27 (UPI) --According to new research, scientists have discovered that a series of more than 80,000 earthquakes occurred about two years ago near a long-dormant underwater volcano in the sea off ...

Indeed, the oldest directly dated ice ever retrieved from Earth has been pulled from the frozen expanse of East Antarctica, ...