Jan 17, 2026 · Antarctica has more than 70 ice shelves that extend the continent’s vast ice sheet out over the ocean. Covering about 1.5m sq km, ice shelves float on the water and don’t by themselves …

Sep 8, 2023 · Antarctica is likely warming at almost twice the rate of the rest of the world and faster than climate change models are predicting, with potentially far-reaching implications for global sea level ...

Dec 13, 2025 · It might be traditional to write to Father Christmas with a gift list, but when Kirsten Shaw wanted a new postbox for staff at the UK’s Rothera Research Station in Antarctica, she wrote to the …

Jan 20, 2026 · Penguins in Antarctica have radically shifted their breeding season, apparently as a response to climate change, research has found.

Oct 4, 2024 · The acceleration in the spread of the mosses from 2016 coincides with the start of a marked decrease in sea ice extent around Antarctica. Warmer open seas may be leading to wetter …

Dec 24, 2025 · Despite the harsh conditions, both Chapman and Rietveld hope to return to Antarctica in the near future. Rietveld says: “It’s quite nice – you sort of become like a private chef.

Sep 26, 2025 · A rare rise in stratospheric temperatures over Antarctica could influence weather into summer, with previous events driving hotter and drier conditions for south-east Australia.

Feb 4, 2024 · “The melting of glaciers in Antarctica would could trigger catastrophic flooding around the planet and result in hundreds of millions of people losing their homes.

Oct 26, 2025 · It accuses Pshenichnov of using his research to undermine Russia’s fishing of krill in Antarctica by encouraging, via a Ukrainian proposal, the restriction of krill harvesting.

Jan 3, 2025 · Chile’s president Gabriel Boric has made a historic trip to the south pole to reaffirm his country’s “claim to sovereignty” over its part of Antarctica, his office said.