Reuters: North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear, scientists said on Thursday. The loss of that ice sheet alone would inundate some coastal areas, swamping New York, ...

Reuters: North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear, scientists said on Thursday. The loss of that ice sheet alone would inundate some coastal areas, swamping New York, ...

Reuters: North America's coastlines would be hit especially hard by rising sea levels if the huge West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapses and melts in a warming world as some experts fear, scientists said on Thursday. The loss of that ice sheet alone would inundate some coastal areas, swamping New York, ...

Guardian: The Arctic Ocean occupies just 3% of the Earth's surface. It is the smallest and shallowest of the oceans, made up of two basins separated by the Lomonosov ridge. The expanding and contracting veneer of floating sea ice that it supports makes it a unique habitat – and one that is thr...

What determines how much coverage a climate study gets? It probably goes without saying that it isn't strongly related to the quality of the actual science, nor to the clarity of the writing. Appearing in one of the top journals does help (Nature, Science, PNAS and occasionally GRL), though that in ...

Not only this Antarctic Snow Cruiser is amazing on its own, with its bigger-than-men wheels and awesome 1939 design but, as you can see, the damn thing carried an entire plane on top. The machine was nicknamed The Penguin and it was part of Operation Highjump, a 4,700-strong US expedition to Antarct...

Physorg: It's December, and undergraduate Jenny Middleton bundles up to face the cold. While all across campus, students, and faculty don their winter gear, Middleton is not preparing for the New England winter; she is preparing for an expedition through the Earth's coldest desert: the McMurdo Dry V...

Physorg: It's December, and undergraduate Jenny Middleton bundles up to face the cold. While all across campus, students, and faculty don their winter gear, Middleton is not preparing for the New England winter; she is preparing for an expedition through the Earth's coldest desert: the McMurdo Dry V...

Today we have yet another report about a far off place most people have never heard about being destroyed by the effects of global warming. The massive Wilkins Ice Shelf in the Antarctic is collapsing. The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is reporting today that: "Wilkins Ice Shelf is the most re...

Note: Please welcome our newest blogger, Explorer Todd Carmichael. Check out this video to learn a little more about Todd and read our welcome message here. Soon IÂ’ll be standing at the intersection of 80 degrees West and 80 degrees South. ItÂ’s a place I know well, a point seemingly on the edge of...