Hidden warm-water traps beneath Antarctica may be melting the continent’s ice far faster than scientists realized.

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking faster than expected. New research shows how winds, ocean heat, and feedback loops caused this ...

New data confirms what climate experts have long worried about: a warm mass of deep polar water has expanded toward Antarctica.

Beware the global meltdown. Antarctica is melting from below due to rising heat from the ocean, threatening the ice shelves, potentially accelerating sea rise and other catastrophic climate effects ...

One of the most striking images in David Attenborough’s Ocean, his defining 2025 documentary, is of supertrawlers dragging ...

A remote island between Australia and Antarctica is showing signs of a dramatic climate transformation. Scientists found ...

Warmer ocean temperatures are causing melting in Antarctica's ice shelves, posing an overlooked threat to global coastlines ...

Global sea levels may rise faster than previously expected, suggests a new study in Nature Communications. The reason is that ...

Deep beneath the Southern Ocean, a quiet but alarming shift is underway: warm water is creeping closer to Antarctica, and scientists are now seeing it clearly for the first time. By combining decades ...

A new decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to ...

The Antarctic region is one of the most pristine wildernesses left on the planet. However, it is facing a number of threats, such as overfishing, pollution and climate change. WWF is working in this ...