Climate models have predicted that the ocean surrounding Antarctica should be warming, but new research shows that it's ...

Stanford researchers discovered that increased meltwater and rainfall account for 60% of the decades-long gap between ...

One of the strangest facts in computer science is that it's really hard to generate true random numbers. For a computer, ...

By Elizabeth Devitt Sea ice extent is at record, and near record, lows for this time of year in both polar regions, leaving ...

Global climate models predict that the ocean around Antarctica should be warming, but in reality, those waters have cooled over most of the past four decades.

At 6,000 feet (1,829 meters) above sea level the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is around ... thing you hear all the time is that Antarctica is cooling and that's not the case. If anything it's the ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

A new MIT-led study confirms that the Antarctic ozone layer is healing, as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances. Scientists including the MIT team have observed ...