Visiting Antarctica used to be a truly extraordinary trek. From just a few hundred explorers in the 1950s, to more than 120,000 tourists last year. Right now, tourism season is picking up again in ...
Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.
As long as natural CO₂ doesn’t surface from the deep ocean, the Southern Ocean can continue to absorb anthropogenic CO₂, a ...
As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...