In some places, the underside of the sea ice looks like giant green clouds. These are the 'grass meadows' of Antarctica, made ...

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the caves beneath Antarctica’s Mount Erebus are an anomaly in more ways than one.

At the same time, declining sea ice is exacerbating challenges for Antarctic krill from the earliest stages of life. Krill ...

From 2002 to 2017, for example, due to global warming, ice sheet losses accounted for roughly a third of mean sea level rise. The Antarctic ice sheet, which covers 98% of the continent ...

While Meijers noted icebergs like A23a are normal parts of the Antarctic life cycle, human-caused climate change has ...

Antarctic sea ice likely reached its minimum extent of 1.98 million square kilometers (764,000 square miles), tying for second lowest extent with 2022 and 2024 in the 47-year satellite record. This is ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the most prominent interannual climate variability signal, has been widely studied for its teleconnections with Antarctic sea ice variability. However, its ...