Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual freeze and melt of millions of square kilometers of sea ice around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive chunk of sea ice in West Antarctica has not refrozen following a winter heatwave in the region – a dramatic change that ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the ...

Antarctica gained about 695 billion metric tons of ice between July 2021 and April 2023, the largest 22-month mass increase ...

Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11,309 billion tonnes of ice since 1979, raising global sea levels by 31.4 millimetres, a ...

Antarctic sea ice has recorded its third-smallest winter peak extent since satellite records began 48 years ago, new data ...

Winter 2023's Antarctic sea ice was at its lowest level since satellite measurements began. A new study shows how unlikely this would be without man-made factors. For decades, scientists have gathered ...

A vast area of Antarctica that should be covered in winter sea ice is instead lying largely exposed to the ocean, alarming scientists and raising fresh concerns about the future of the frozen ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The extremely low Antarctic sea ice levels in 2023 were even more ...

At the end of the southern summer, Antarctica’s sea ice hit its annual minimum. By at least one measure, which tracks the area of ocean that contains at least 15% of sea ice, it was a little above the ...

After months of summer, the sea ice fringing Antarctica has shriveled to its annual minimum. And for the third year running, scientists are shocked by just how much ice has gone missing. The annual ...