Sea Level Rise Revised
A new study in the journal Science challenges the long-held idea that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would raise sea level by as much as...
Antarctic Bird Nest?
The previous discovery of a new bird species related to ducks and geese on an island off the Antarctic Peninsula has encouraged scientists to look...
The Poop on Penguins
Penguin guano stains, visible from space, have helped British scientists locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica. For the survey, the researchers used satellite images...
Snowball Earth
Stephen Warren has made eight previous trips to Antarctica to study its climate. But on his ninth visit to the frozen continent later this year,...
Balancing Act
Ian Joughin and his team have a tough job ahead of them: Determine how much ice from a vast swath of West Antarctica is being...
Pine Island Glacier
Nearly a third of the ice in West Antarctica drains through the Pine Island Glacier area. Were it to all pour out in a catastrophic...
Feeling the Heat
The fish that swim in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica have evolved over millions of years to survive and thrive in salty ocean water that...
Cradle to Grave
An extinct southern elephant seal colony that once existed in huge numbers along sandy and rocky beaches in Antarctica has provided new insight into how...
Vantage Point
The South Pole has become the place to be for scientists searching for high-energy neutrinos or to understand the nature of the dark energy that...
Down the Hole
Ice cores from Antarctica, Greenland and elsewhere in the world serve as a way for scientists to travel back in time to understand past climate....
