British Antarctic Survey

Emperor penguins, considered “near threatened” with extinction, are the world’s largest penguins. They raise their chicks in Antarctic winter on patches of frozen sea ice. But if the ice breaks up before the chicks have fledged, most will die.

The year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a "punch in the guts."

Britain's polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world — a “lucky” encounter that enabled scientists to collect seawater samples around the colossal berg as it drifts out of Antarctic waters, the British Antarctic Survey said.

One of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters, after being grounded for more than three decades, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

A new study reaffirming that global climate change is human-made also found the upper atmosphere is cooling dramatically because of rising CO2 levels. Scientists are worried about the effect this cooling could have on orbiting satellites, the ozone layer, and Earth’s weather.

The colony of about 500 birds was seen in a remote region where they face an existential threat due to global heating.

Two-thirds of Antarctica’s native species, including emperor penguins, are under threat of extinction or major population declines by 2100 under current trajectories of global heating, according to new research that outlines priorities for protecting the continent’s biodiversity.

We know there were animals during Earth’s chilliest eras. The question is: What did they look like?

In Antarctica, rebounding fur seals are threatening the frozen continent’s fragile flora.

The dramatic spread of native plants over the past decade is evidence of accelerating shifts in the fragile polar ecosystem, study finds.

New peer-reviewed study finds global pollution cuts need to increase tenfold to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.