An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

Bethan Davies receives funding from the FCDO Polar Regions Department. Rain is rare in Antarctica. Scientists doing fieldwork there dress for cold and glare, not wet weather – duvet jackets, snow ...

Antarctica, once a frozen polar desert, is now experiencing rainfall due to rising global temperatures. This shift, particularly on the warming Antarctic Peninsula, accelerates glacier melt, threatens ...

Rain is no longer rare on the Antarctic Peninsula, and scientists warn that rising temperatures, melting ice and struggling penguins could signal a dramatic shift for Earth’s coldest continent.

New research shows storms in the Southern Ocean are producing more rainfall, revealing a major shift in one of Earth’s most important climate systems. Macquarie Island sits in the remote Southern ...

Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed.

Antarctica is offering all kinds of jobs for people who are brave enough to live and work on the continent. It’s brutally ...

Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the world’s largest desert. Defined by extreme dryness rather than heat, this frozen continent stretches across 14 million square kilometres of ice.

Arctic sea ice is headed for one of its smallest winter peaks on record, an AFP review of U.S. data showed Wednesday, as ...

What does Antarctica sound like? 'Magic. A silence that is not silent.' Visiting this part of the world is unlike anything else - and doing so on a cruise ship offers the opportunity to immerse ...

On a map, Antarctica reads like the final frontier, a place where the rules of the natural world work a little differently. The idea that an entire continent covered in ice qualifies as a desert doesn ...

A rare aviation mission from Cape Town has offered a glimpse of what it takes to land a passenger jet on the frozen continent ...