How animals may have survived on a snowball Earth
We know there were animals during Earth’s chilliest eras. The question is: What did they look like?
Antarctica
Sinking land and rising seas menace Manila Bay’s coastal communities
Groundwater pumping in the Philippines is causing coastal land to sink while the razing of mangrove forest has left the area vulnerable to bigger storm surges from the rising seas.
Climate conference hears loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050
A new report from dozens of international scientists says it's inevitable the Arctic will lose its entire summer sea cover at least once over the next generation and probably a lot more often than that.
Climate crisis threatens to wipe out emperor penguins
The birds featured in March of the Penguins film face almost complete annihilation by the end of the century as Antarctic sea ice is lost.
Heat waves at both of the Earth’s poles alarm climate scientists
Antarctic areas reach 40 C above normal at the same time as North Pole regions hit 30 C above usual levels.
Black carbon pollution from tourism and research speeding up Antarctic snowmelt
Pollution generated by burning fossil fuels causes snow to darken, absorb more solar energy and melt faster.
Explosion of plant life shows ‘major change’ in a warming Antarctica
The dramatic spread of native plants over the past decade is evidence of accelerating shifts in the fragile polar ecosystem, study finds.
Canadian researcher on why you should care about the Thwaites Glacier
David Holland is set to reach the Thwaites Glacier in the coming days, one of the most unstable glaciers in Antarctica, where he will set up a base for a month-long research project.
This winter in Europe hottest on record by far
Climate crisis likely to have supercharged temperatures around world, data suggests
Antarctica’s glaciers are melting so fast, you can swim in them. In a Speedo.
Will these grim dispatches from Antarctica get the world’s attention?
Scientists call for stop to disappearance of Earth's remaining intact land, sea
Researchers who have produced a map of the world's remaining intact land and ocean areas are urging international delegates at an upcoming meeting on biodiversity to set a target and push governments to conserve what's left of the wild.
Parts of Antarctica in ‘state of collapse’ as rate of melting ice triples
The melting of Antarctica is accelerating at an alarming rate, with about 3 trillion tons of ice disappearing since 1992, an international team of ice experts said in a new study.
The impending doom of the largest iceberg anyone’s ever measured
This story starts more than 18 years ago, in March 2000, when a piece of the Ross Ice Shelf broke off and floated free on Antarctic waters. The crack of that iceberg forming filled the ocean with noise. Since scientists started documenting the size of icebergs, they had never seen one larger.
Scientists say massive iceberg has broken off in Antarctica
A vast iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie has broken off from a key floating ice shelf in Antarctica, scientists said on Wednesday, July 12, 2017.