Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a broken ring of mountains, deep basins and flooded valleys that would redraw ...

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the sun sets in April and ...

Scientists have drawn up the most accurate map of Antarctica, offering background to the continent’s response to climate ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

The New York Times went on an expedition to study Antarctica’s fastest-thinning glaciers. CreditCredit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times For much of January and February, Raymond Zhong, a New York ...

In yet another climate crisis rollback in America, the 2009 endangerment finding — which determined that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and welfare — was revoked on Thursday. Climate ...

I keep my Mont Helios jacket on the back of my seat at every meal because it is warm enough to wear outside over the top of ...

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