About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

With a rise in global temperatures, Antarctica was facing extreme shrinkage in ice and weak ocean currents, and scientists warned about them.

Ocean Scientist Sean McLoughlin from from Clogher, Portnoo is working on one of the most important climate studies on earth.

The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of 3 knots, ...

A picture of what West Antarctica looked like when its ice sheet melted in the past can offer insight into the continent’s ...

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans ...

The vegetation in Antarctica is succumbing to damage caused by climate change, according to researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia. A 13-year study published in the journal Nature ...

Shaw is joining 73 women to promote more discussion about the climate crisis, by witnessing its impacts in Antarctica. Award-winning science communicator Dr Niamh Shaw is preparing for a voyage to ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

As the researchers noted, rising carbon pollution has been linked to rising global temperatures. The burning of coal, natural ...

For 44 years, satellites have helped scientists track how much ice is floating on the ocean around Antarctica’s 18,000km coastline. The continent’s fringing waters witness a big shift each year, with ...