Humans continue to visit the Antarctic to explore, research and document the polar environment, as well as participate in the whaling and sealing industry. While the Antarctic, and especially the ...

Scientists know already that Thwaites Glacier, which is twice the size of the UK, accounts for around 4% of global sea level rise. A new UK-U.S. Antarctic research program to improve the ...

Here is a depressing fact: over the coming decades, sea-level rise will continue to threaten ecosystems, communities and ...

The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. And it is causing ...

An international science project on Wednesday published a study in the journal Nature showing that glaciers have lost an ...

Since the year 2000, glaciers have been losing 273 billion tons of ice annually, according to estimates by an international ...

Projections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of today ...

Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, and the Australian Antarctic Division, AAD, have successfully installed the first solar panel system at an Australian Antarctic station. In an announcement ...

A drone photo taken on Feb 6, 2024 shows the view of China's Qinling Station in Antarctica. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING -- As China's Qinling Station, the youngest of the country's five scientific research ...

Separate from the continental ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers covered an area of 705,221 km2 and contained 121,728 billion tons of ...