A new report shows Antarctica experienced one of its coldest winters on record during 2021. The National Snow and Ice Data Center said the continent’s temperatures in June, July and August were 6.1 ...
Ice core researcher Don Voigt examines an ice core at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide (WAIS Divide) project. Credit: Gifford Wong Ice core researcher Don Voigt examines an ice core at the West ...
Between 2021 and 2023, the Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass at an average rate of approximately 108 gigatons per year, stunning researchers who had been tracking decades of ice loss. From 2021 to 2023, ...
The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023, a dramatic reversal from decades of loss. Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall. The ...
As climate change slowly strips Antarctica of its glistening white ice, the frozen continent is getting more and more green. New NASA imaged reveal how vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula ...
Deep under almost three kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists expected to find a frozen archive of Earth’s distant past.