ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the ...

Extreme precipitation events in Antarctica, which are mostly dominated by snowfall due to sub-zero temperatures, also include ...

Global warming is to blame for Argentine Antarctica recording its hottest day since readings began, Greenpeace said on Friday. Temperatures climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit ...

Rising Sea Levels When you think about the ice melting in Greenland and Antarctica, you're really looking at the biggest ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may ...

Not only is it heating up, but Antarctica's circumpolar current is "warming more rapidly than the global ocean as a whole." Antarctica's climate change issues were recently highlighted by a new ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

Geoengineering proposals to cool the ocean would indeed reduce ice loss from West Antarctica’s glaciers, but not enough to stop sea-level rise or allow the ice sheet to regrow.