A single Antarctic heatwave or storm can noticeably raise the sea level

Individual extreme weather events can also have a much longer-term effect on the world’s largest ice sheets

Antarctica, Greenland ice sheet melting matches worst-case climate change scenarios: Study

Ice sheets lose ice at rates predicted by worst-case scenarios estimated in the last report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The limits of ice: What a 19th century expedition trapped in sea ice for a year tells us about Antarctica’s future

Antarctica’s sea ice has held out for longer. A ship like the Belgica could have been stuck in sea ice as late as 2015

Chilling effect

Antarctica is melting: Opportunity for realtors?

Take note, Antarctica has huge waterfalls and they point to warming climate

Meltwater systems on Antarctic surface are more widespread than previously thought

Antarctic huts go online

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The blood runs cold

Enzymes remain active at freezing temperatures

Ozone loss has a silver lining

Studies reveal that falling ozone concentration could partly offset global warming

Jekyll and Hyde

Crisis in Antarctica

Melting continent

Breaking the ice

A historic agreement to conserve Antarctica becomes a legally-binding treaty

(W)hole truth

Antarctic ozone hole smaller this year, says NASA

Antarctica melting

Antarctic retreat

Most glaciers in peninsular region melting rapidly

First expedition in Intenational Polar Year 2007-08 begins

In hot water

While the Antarctic ice cap is relatively stable, the sea level is rising due to a simple law of physics: water expands when heated

In a first, a polar bear has died of avian flu in the Arctic

Ecosystems in polar regions are particularly vulnerable to bird flu because they contain many animals found nowhere else in the world and never …

Simply Put: Ozone hole and loop hole

Antarctica's violent past

The biggest icy continent was rocked by a huge volcanic eruption

According to report

Antarctic wildlife susceptible to human diseases, says study

Researchers found widespread evidence of human-linked pathogens found in the faeces of Antarctic seabirds for the first time

Australia, source of uranium and lead pollution in Antarctica

Since 1945, rise in Southern Hemisphere uranium levels has been attributed to uranium mining in Australia 

Close shave: Giant iceberg grazes Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf 

A chunk bigger than A-74 would have been knocked off the iceshelf had the impact been stronger