Right now, cold air high above Antarctica is up to 35ºC warmer than normal. Normally, strong winds and the lack of sun would keep the temperature at around –55°C. But it's risen sharply to around ...

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

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

"It's not sudden in the sense we would commonly use." Experts sound alarm after Antarctica air temperature record broken by 60 degrees: 'Unexpected' first appeared on The Cool Down.

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

Temperatures above Antarctica have risen by 30C, in a rare event that could potentially flip Australia's spring weather for ...

The planet's warming climate is having effects in Antarctica that increasingly resemble those observed in the Arctic, meaning ...

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 ...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it ...

New methane leaks have been discovered in the Ross Sea, on the edge of Antarctica, and the rate at which they are occurring ...

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing ...