A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including researchers from the National Institute of Polar Research, the Japan Agency for ...

The Southern Ocean absorbs nearly half of all ocean-stored human CO2, but its future role is uncertain. Despite models ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere in the coming months ...

Scientists have discovered another cause for melting glaciers, and it's one that has been overlooked before. According to Earth.com, fast-moving winds in West Antarctica frequently blow over the ...

A pyramid-shaped mountain peak in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica has captured global attention, appearing as a ...

In the Antarctic winter, this upper atmosphere normally stays near –55°C, held by strong polar winds and the absence of sunlight ...

New underwater footage reveals how anchors and chains from ships are damaging the Antarctic seafloor and its marine life.

Antarctica’s warm weather in September is driving the gale-force winds and hot temperatures being felt across New Zealand this week. Temperatures could reach nearly 30C in Hawke’s Bay on Thursday and ...

A research team made a startling discovery about a massive ice sheet in the Antarctic that could cause global sea levels to rise by as much as 20 feet. Their findings, published in the journal Nature ...

Penguins walking across sea ice by a large iceberg in front of Thwaites Ice Shelf, a large, unstable mass of ice that extends from the West Antarctic ice sheet into the sea. Most of the Earth’s fresh ...

Ocean heat transport pathways to Totten Glacier revealed so far by this research group. Background color is the mean dynamic ocean topography for the period 2011-2022. A deep ocean basin is extending ...