When researcher Peter Convey first visited Antarctica’s McCloud Glacier, the remnants of which are seen here, in 1989, the nunatak seen at middle right of the glacier barely poked through the ice ...

Edited by James Zachos, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA; received November 19, 2024; accepted January 12, 2026 ...

Polar Latitudes Expeditions will offer its first "Fly & Cruise" Antarctica program with departures in January and February 2028. This entails three new itineraries for travelers who wish to minimize ...

A newly drawn map of the southernmost continent has revealed the whole of Antarctica’s subglacial world in unprecedented detail, providing new data that could help scientists tackle climate change.

Wildlife watchers in Antarctica were amazed when a lone gentoo penguin managed to outsmart hunting orcas by racing and swerving away from them, dodging their approach. In the clip, the orcas can be ...

Antarctic sea ice coverage has likely rebounded this year, coming closer to its annual summer average after four years of extreme lows, US scientists said Monday. The area covered by Antarctic sea ice ...

Antarctica holds about 90 percent of the ice on Earth. Most people picture it as a frozen place that barely changes. In reality, the ice sheet along its edges is always moving, shifting, and ...

Antarctic sea ice has likely reached its minimum extent for the year, at 2.58 million square kilometers (996,000 square miles) on February 26, 2026, according to scientists at the National Snow and ...

Antarctica’s massive ice shelves interact extensively with the ocean beneath them; at this junction, relatively warm seawater can melt the floating ice from below. But what’s happening in these hidden ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...