An article published recently in Nature Geoscience warns that Antarctica's ice masses have begun to experience a process scientists call "Greenlandification." The term refers to the unprecedented ...

Researchers solved the mystery thanks to measuring devices that captured the event entirely by chance, providing the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antarctica abrupt changes threaten ice, oceans, and ecosystems, with global impacts unless emissions fall fast. (CREDIT: ...

Some of the regions tend to lose ice more gradually, while others have a more dramatic, irreversible reaction.

The soils of Maritime Antarctica represent a unique amalgamation of physical and chemical processes driven by extreme climatic conditions, glacial history and biotic influences. Recent investigations ...

Shifts in different facets of Antarctica's climate system amplify each other and accelerate the pace of warming globally as well The only way to slow down the interlocking changes in Antarctica is to ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about sudden and dramatic changes unfolding across Antarctica. The icy continent, once thought to respond only slowly to climate shifts, is showing signs of rapid ...