Mites are common in the Antarctic – there are hundreds of species. Some even live in the nasal cavities of penguins. Penguin ...

Arctic sea ice reached a record-low winter maximum on March 22, 2025, with just 5.53 million square miles of coverage—well ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

Why do humans adjust with such ease to radical change? It’s one of the ways we refocus energy on survival. This was once ...

The findings have significant implications for understanding the future of West Antarctica’s ice shelves and the broader impacts on global sea levels, the statement said. “The prolonged warm air ...

A study by IIT Kharagpur and global experts highlights significant atmospheric drivers influencing rapid surface melting in West Antarctic ice shelves. Findings suggest prolonged warm air transport ...

Using satellite data, climate model simulations, and observational analysis, the researchers were able to trace the role of tropical atmospheric influences in recent ice shelf melt trends.

Due to continued warming, Antarctic ice shelves have begun shedding more fresh meltwater than ever into the Southern Ocean, an effect that could weaken one of the world’s key ocean currents ...

Until now, very little is known about creatures living beneath Antarctica's floating ice shelves. A previous British survey in 2021 first reported signs of bottom-dwelling life forms beneath the ...

Most of Antarctica’s coastline is fringed with slabs of ice, hundreds of feet thick, that float on the ocean. These floating ice shelves hold back coastal glaciers, slowing their flow into the ...

A wide diversity of marine life, that may include previously unknown species, flourishes in a region of ocean once hidden beneath a thick cover of ice, finds a recently-returned Antarctic expedition ...