Category : Oceans and Atmosphere

A pair of studies published this month in the prestigious journal Science link ozone depletion over the Antarctic to powerful changes in atmospheric and ocean...

A new study in the Journal of Climate suggests widespread warming across the Antarctic Peninsula during the fall is being influenced by atmospheric circulation patterns...

West Antarctica remains the most climatically dynamic region of Antarctica, which continues to be largely shielded from the effects of global warming thanks to the...

Winter at the South Pole always has its ups and downs, but the weather at the bottom of the world has been taking some wild...

The wild winter weather continued at the South Pole through June, as more temperature and wind records fell as the research station passed the midwinter...

Last month was the warmest August on record for the South Pole, ending a winter that will go down as the mildest ever since record-keeping...

Antarctic sea ice extent reached a new record high maximum last month, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. In...

The 2013 winter – the months of June, July and August – will already go down as the warmest such season at the South Pole...

The ozone hole that forms each year above the Antarctic was a little smaller in 2013 than in years past, according to a recent news...