Sea ice around Antarctica expanded for several decades until a dramatic decline in 2015. The reasons behind this are revealed ...

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A vast study spanning thirty years shows that the majority of Antarctica's coastline is not moving, while some areas are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new ...

A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures ...

Ancient Antarctic ice sheet cycles affected subtropical ocean productivity by altering nutrient circulation. The 40,000-year obliquity cycle played an unexpectedly strong role, revealing deep global ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, uncovering an exuberant landscape of mountains, canyons, valleys and plains ...

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, used ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet. From impacting worldwide weather patterns to making the ...

The new map revealed tens of thousands of previously undiscovered landforms. Alexey Belenkiy via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other ...