Ask people to name the coldest country in the world, and the answer almost instinctively given is Antarctica. The confusion is understandable. Antarctica holds the record for the lowest temperature ...

Antarctica is breaking apart in two very different directions. While West Antarctica hemorrhages ice into warming seas at an ...

(Reuters) - Scientists are stepping up their study of Antarctica and its wildlife for possible early warnings about how climate change may disrupt life around the planet in coming decades. Here are ...

Geological observations of past ice sheet behavior enable us to refine physical models that predict how much, how fast, and from where Antarctic ice mass loss will contribute to future sea level rise.