A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach -40°C or lower in the interior, with the lowest ever temperature on Earth ...

Antarctica is shedding ice, heat, and stability in ways that are no longer confined to obscure scientific journals or distant ...

December 2025 / Kiel. A study by an international team involving the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows ...

We found that Antarctic mosses create their own miniature climates, and these can vary dramatically in a single square metre.

Antarctica has long been treated as a frozen constant, a white backdrop to the planet’s climate drama rather than its main ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon ...

While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on track to recover later this century, NASA and the ...

In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...

Dr Krystal Randall, a post-doctoral research fellow, found some types of moss are close to reaching nearly 30 degrees in the ...