Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

When satellites first started peering down on the craggy, glaciated Antarctic Peninsula about 40 years ago, they saw only a few tiny patches of vegetation covering a total of about 8,000 square ...

Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...

The first color that comes to mind when thinking about Antarctica is a stark white, which makes sense, given the southernmost continent is generally buried in ice and snow. It has earned its ...

What’s new: A recent study reveals that the icy Antarctic Peninsula, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica, has experienced a nearly twelve-fold increase in plant cover over the last 35 years.

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there impacts the world well beyond the coast — influencing weather patterns and food ...

While Antarctic meltwater drives rising sea levels, models show it also delays greenhouse gas-induced warming. That’s because ...

The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has continued to accelerate, increasing by a record amount last year. Trees, plants and tiny plankton in the ocean all convert CO2 into the oxygen we ...

We hear a lot in the mainstream media about massive ice loss in Antarctica and how it may radically increase sea level rise. The West Antarctic ice sheet and ice on the Antarctic peninsula are in ...