Freshwater from melting Antarctic glaciers may be influencing the Southern Ocean in ways scientists have largely overlooked.

But as the populations of whales and fur seals have recovered over the last three decades, the numbers of penguins have dropped as they compete for krill. At the same time, the We ...

A shallow magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the South Shetland Islands, just off the Antarctic Peninsula, at a depth of ...

Vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than 10-fold over the last four decades, new research shows. The Antarctic Peninsula, like many polar regions, is warming faster than ...

Glaciers – giant blocks of moving ice – along Antarctica’s coastline are flowing faster in the summer because of a combination of melting snow and warmer ocean waters, say researchers. On average, the ...

Visitors in November can expect temperatures between a low of 25 degrees to a high of 32 degrees Fahrenheit. The warmest ...

A new species of Antarctic dragonfish, Akarotaxis gouldae or Banded Dragonfish, has been discovered in waters off the western Antarctic Peninsula. The species, named in honor of the recently ...

Greenland’s ice sheet is losing mass fast enough to raise global sea levels by roughly 0.69 millimeters each year, a rate ...

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, used ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Feb. 9, the first confirmed case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 was discovered in Antarctica near Argentina’s ...