A new source of warming has been found for Antarctica: the North Atlantic and tropical Atlantic Ocean. Warm waters in the Pacific have bee...

The continent of Antarctica is a land of complexity and paradox, especially when talking about climate change. It is our driest and coldest ...

Volcanic activity detected near the Executive Committee range in Marie Byrd Land in West Antarctica adds another factor to the instability o...

I came across an article lambasting the Australian Antarctic Expedition scientists on board the MV Akademik Shokalskiy trapped by fast ice s...

This study analysing an Antarctic Peninsula ice core from James Ross island has determined that there has been a ten fold increase in melt i...

A new ice core study from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) concludes that current dramatic and unusual warming changes on the West Antarc...

It seems the genetics of the Antarctic Octopus is showing us how fragile the West Antarctic Ice sheet (WAIS) may be with global warming. It ...

Peter Sinclair has put together another educative video gem on the decline of Arctic Sea Ice, and indeed global sea ice. The video mixes t...

Antarctic sea ice extent is a complex and puzzling beast, not following a simple process of rapid Arctic sea ice diminishment . A new paper ...

The melt season on the Antarctic Peninsula has been getting much longer over the last 60 years, at some locations doubling in length accordi...

Hobart as an important scientific hub and gateway for Antarctic and Southern Ocean marine research, not only for Australia but for other na...

Climate scientist James Hansen and his colleague Makiko Sato have released a new discussion paper with updated data on ice sheet mass loss f...

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is warming at three times the global average, according to temperature measurements at Byrd Polar Station. Thi...

While the Arctic sea-ice has experienced a dramatic reduction, Antarctic sea ice continues to increase in extent hitting a new record in O...

There is a rapid response connection between polar temperature changes, ice volume and sea leavel according to a new method of dating of se...

Climate change is causing the southern ocean to warm and freshen which will melt ice shelves and glacier tongues affecting glacier discharge...

Warm ocean currents are projected to melt the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica opening instabilities in the We...

UK Naturalist and documentary maker David Attenborough has warned about the implications of melting ice sheets in the polar regions but emph...

Scientists have been studying the climate change impacts on ice shelfs and glaciers for some time in Antarctica, and particularly around the...

A new study of declining penguin populations shows a strong correlation between penguin numbers and krill availability. Krill availability i...