It's another sign of how quickly our planet’s poles are changing. Researchers issue warning after making troubling discovery ...

The stratospheric polar vortex high above Antarctica has rapidly heated up. These sudden bursts of heat can bring rapid weather changes in Australia ...

At the end of September, cold air at high altitudes above Antarctica had soared to more than 60 degrees above normal. It is a ...

These changes are already affecting communities and ecosystems worldwide. Scientists issue warning over unprecedented ...

Is this visitor to Antarctica going crazy or having a good time? Tim Bieber/Photodisc via Getty Images As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those ...

Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole as glaciers start to flow faster and surface melting ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

Stratospheric temperatures in Antarctica are spiking, which could see strange weather unfold across the southern hemisphere ...

Three staff members from a United States research base in Antarctica were medically evacuated to New Zealand during extreme cold and dark conditions amid the southern winter, New Zealand’s air force ...

Antarctica has long been known as one of the most forbidding areas on earth, thanks to an inhospitable environment and a lack of any native inhabitants — well, human ones anyway. But there are ...

Antarctica is by far the coldest area on the planet. The coldest temperature recorded on Earth was recorded at Vostok, the Russian Antarctica research station in July 1983, when the temperature ...

In a study published Sept. 10, improved technology indicated that ice loss in western Antarctica is driven primarily by ...