Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For decades, scientists have known that black carbon from burning fossil fuels or forests ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

Chen Zhao is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Dr Zhao is affiliated with Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP), at the Institute ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ice loss. A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...

Despite all its ice, Antarctica is actually a desert because so little moisture falls from the sky. The inner regions of the continent receive an average of 2 inches (5 centimeters) of ...

Antarctica, with its vast ice-covered expanses, has long been a symbol of Earth’s remote, untouched wilderness. Yet, the ice sheets of this frozen continent are increasingly catching the world’s ...

Antarctic’s ice extent on March 1 tied for the second-lowest minimum observed in the satellite record. Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes over in winter but this hole was formed far from land, in the middle of ...

At an event to commemorate the 25th Foundation Day of NCPOR on Thursday, Meloth said Antarctica and the Arctic are important in controlling the global weather patterns. “Recent studies have shown that ...