Scientists recorded a total-column ozone concentration of 102 Dobson units, the 8th-lowest level since 1986.

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is Earth's largest oceanic current, circling around Antarctica from west to east in alignment with Earth's rotation. This cold ocean current is driven primarily ...

Climate models suggest that climate change could reduce the Southern Ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2). However, ...

New underwater footage reveals how anchors and chains from ships are damaging the Antarctic seafloor and its marine life.

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting increases.

The stratospheric polar vortex high above Antarctica has rapidly heated up. These sudden bursts of heat can bring rapid weather changes in Australia ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere in the coming months ...

In a study published Sept. 10, improved technology indicated that ice loss in western Antarctica is driven primarily by ...

In the Antarctic winter, this upper atmosphere normally stays near –55°C, held by strong polar winds and the absence of sunlight ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it ...