When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

Chinese scientists are expected to conclude the most complete and precise map of Antarctica ... Although much of Antarctica has been chartered and collected in maps by different countries this ...

A team of scientists from Bowling Green State University are currently en route to Antarctica in search of groundbreaking new data that could play a key role in the future of climate research.

January’s record heat highlights how human-driven ocean warming is increasingly overwhelming natural climate cooling patterns ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

Changes to the surrounding ocean, including warmer waters and more freshwater ... below ice shelves are responsible for differing melt rates of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica’s largest. This remote ...

The 'Titanic' sinking became the most infamous shipwreck in history—but what really happened on that unusually calm night in ...

Complementary, if less detailed, surface data come from the Bureau's expanding system of more than 100 automatic weather stations, ship reports, and from drifting buoys in the surrounding oceans ...

This is also the case for Australia, where land areas are warming about 40% faster than the surrounding oceans ... number of days with dangerous weather conditions for bushfires. The map shows the ...

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps. This is the first time these tiny pieces of plastic ...