Cold Temperatures for an Insect . Like hibernating bears, many insects slow their bodily processes during the tough winter ...

In the end, in the dark, it all came down to three things — experience, good judgment in the face of uncertainty, and penguin ...

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...

Krill larvae don’t have the lipid reserves of adult krill to get through the dark Antarctic winter, says Hauke Flores, a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Among the more inhospitable segments of the earth’s surface, the frigid continent of Antarctica remains—for scientistsצne of the most magnetic. There is still so much to learn that more than ...

XRay. Before the Navy gives way to the Antarctic winter, mapping planes may try to find out if Antarctica is really a single continent. Two deep indentations, the Weddell Sea and the Ross Sea ...

PARIS - Global sea ice cover reached a historic low in February, Europe’s climate monitor said on March 6, with temperatures ...

In September 2023, the Antarctic winter maximum set a record low by a wide margin. The low Antarctic sea ice extent through much of 2023 was significant enough to flip the long-term annual mean ...

The renewable energy system ensures stable power in Antarctica’s extreme conditions, and is estimated to cut fossil fuel use ...