"Last weekend was very strange." ...

Satellite monitoring shows Antarctic sea ice lagging far behind normal levels this winter, with the shortfall concentrated ...

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the Arctic. But in 2015, that changed when the sea ice fringing this vast, icy continent stopped ...

Wind is easy to overlook until it becomes impossible to ignore. Most of the time, it arrives as a background presence, rustling leaves, pushing clouds across the sky or bringing relief on a hot day.

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice—frozen seawater that expands ...