We're witnessing a march of the penguins — not to the edge of the ice, but to extinction. According to new research by the ...

Scientists previously estimated that the total emperor penguin population declined about 10% across all of Antarctica over the past decade and a half. The latest survey included a region covering the ...

Plant cover on the northern Antarctic Peninsula expanded more than 12 times over the past 35 years, a new study has found. Satellite imagery analysis by researchers shows that vegetation on the ...

Antarctica is warming at a rate so rapid that the frozen region’s green vegetation has grown tenfold in the past four decades, according to a concerning new report in the journal “Nature ...

“Global warming? No.” No, this is not a real photo of Antarctica as seen from space. It’s an image a NASA scientist created using real satellite data to depict what the continent would look ...

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