Researchers have uncovered evidence showing that several subglacial landmarks are the result of the same geological process.

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice ...

A new study shows that atmospheric rivers may be responsible for up to 90% of Antarctica’s annual precipitation.

A new study suggests Antarctica’s ice sheet hit a climate tipping point about one million years ago, making it far more ...

Some countries, most frequently China or Russia, use the “politicization of science” to block new conservation measures in the Southern Ocean, observers say. An international meeting dedicated to the ...

Antarctica has long been seen as Earth’s frozen shield, vast, remote, and seemingly unbreakable. Yet scientists are now warning that some of its most fragile regions may have crossed a dangerous ...

For most of us, Antarctica is a frozen white desert that is mysterious, remote and almost unfathomably cold. However, a groundbreaking new scientific map, published in Science in January 2026, is now ...

Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen seawater that expands around the continent each winter – appeared ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. In April, I reported on the fight for Antarctica and the ...

We all know that climate change is slowly causing massive changes to our world. What you might not know is that those changes are more extensive than just rising sea levels. In fact, research has ...

The process wiped out sea ice over an area roughly the size of Greenland.

Foreword / Prince Albert II of Monaco -- Preface / Paul Arthur Berkman [and others] -- Science as a tool of diplomacy. Building the international legal framework for Antarctica / Marie Jacobsson -- ...