If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles ... the Caribbean coast and in Central America. Compared with other continents, Africa ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

“I haven’t seen melt ponds develop this quickly in Antarctica,” said Pelto ... The Antarctic Peninsula — the northwest tip near South America where the two Argentinian bases are ...

With the ice caps melting, new sea lanes opening ... bid to acquire Greenland—the same process is underway in Antarctica. Indeed, the U.S. Air Force has just concluded this year’s “Operation ...

No matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an “unavoidable” melt, a new study has found. British Antarctic ...

all of Greenland's ice were to melt, or all of Antarctica's. No expert expects either of these scenarios to happen anytime soon, certainly not in the next century. But as a kind of visual thought ...

A team of international scientists has created a map revealing Antarctica's topography beneath ... This puts the ice at greater risk of melting due to the incursion of warm ocean water that's ...