East Antarctica’s interior is warming at a startling pace, powered by shifting ocean conditions that drive warm air inland. Long overlooked, this icy heart may hold the key to future sea level rise.

The icy landscapes of Antarctica may seem barren and unchanging at first glance, but beneath its frosty surface, the ...

Antarctica is melting — but not the way most people imagine. Beneath its massive ice shelves, the ocean is quietly eating ...

In one of the most remote and forbidding places on Earth, scientists have made a discovery that’s stirring curiosity far ...

New research has revealed that East Antarctica’s vast and icy interior is heating up faster than its coasts, fueled by warm air carried from the Southern Indian Ocean. Using 30 years of weather ...

How long tubes of mud - drilled out of the Antarctic seafloor - could reveal how the frozen continent is changing.

Abrupt changes” threaten to send the continent past the point of no return, at which point continued ice-melting would ...

Insufficient monitoring leaves gaps in our knowledge of Antarctica's unique lifeforms and ecosystems—and their global significance. A new paper led by University of Wollongong researchers calls for ...