When considering an Antarctic expedition cruise, images of penguins, seals, and whales come to mind. But for me, the real ...

So, what do we make of these green deserts and melting polar edges? These are not signs of nature healing but signals of a ...

Now part of Halfar’s research group studying changes in sea ice cover in northern Labrador, Dias and her co-researchers are ...

Minoli Dias's interest in sea ice began in an unlikely place: polar bear poop.She was studying microplastics in polar bear feces and intestinal tracts ...

Plants, trees, and soil absorbed almost no net CO2 last year. If this continues, we're in bigger trouble than we thought.

A preliminary investigation by an international team of researchers revealed that the amount of carbon absorbed by land ...

The glacier ice algae Ancylonema alaskanum and Ancylonema nordenskiöldii grow in harsh dynamic environments on bare ice surfaces. In these environments, they contribute to the continuous darkening of ...

The Real Ice project is being met with scepticism from some other sea-ice researchers who say it's just not feasible ... Snow ...

The Antarctic is becoming increasingly covered in plant life as the ice has been melting rapidly over recent years and scientists warn of the devastating effects of climate change.

The findings, published Friday in Nature Geoscience, based on a meticulous analysis of Landsat images from 1986 to 2021, show ...

Antarctic sea ice has reached its maximum extent for the year, clocking in at the second lowest in a record stretching back to 1979, according to provisional data from the US National Snow and Ice ...

Other research, including fossil studies, suggests that beech trees grew on Antarctica as recently as 2.5 million years ago, ...