Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of years ago, the Antarctic continent was a lush jungle. Millions of years from now, it may be jungle again. But for all ...

It's common knowledge that Earth's southernmost continent, Antarctica, has exceptionally cold temperatures. However, you might not know the scope of the continent's frigidity. Antarctica is one of ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the ...

What looked like an iceberg turns out to be an undiscovered Antarctic island, surprising scientists and reshaping maps of the ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles. But ...

A German research vessel seeking shelter from rough weather has discovered a previously unknown island in a remote and poorly ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries would simply cease to exist. Entire coastal megacities would be abandoned, new ...

Laura French made the journey with Swan Hellenic to explore this remote part of the world, where Ernest Shackleton was once ...

The claim: Polar sea ice extents show climate change is a 'scam' A Dec. 23, 2024, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a map of Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, with color coding that ...

Sea-level rise changes coastlines, putting homes at risk, as Summer Haven, Fla., has seen. Aerial Views/E+/Getty Images Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of ...