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Scientists See Converging Evidence of Antarctic Ice Retreat

A sediment core spanning millions of years and new modeling studies point to significant ice retreat under temperatures similar to today.

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers and tourists explore the edge of an ice shelf along the Antarctic Peninsula, which has warmed faster than nearly any other region in the past few decades. Credit Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News
Emperor penguins are only found in Antarctica and evolved over millions of years to live with polar ice, a true sentinel species for global warming. Credit: Peter Fretwell

Satellites Reveal New Climate Threat to Emperor Penguins

By Bob Berwyn

A crew works to construc a sea wall to reduce the risk of coastal flooding and erosion due to sea level rise on March 4 in La Baule, France. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

New Climate Study Highlights Dire Sea Level Warnings

By Bob Berwyn

Researchers walk down to the sea at the Argentinean Alimirante Brown Station on the Antarctic Peninsula. Credit: Ted Scambos/Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental/UC Boulder

Trump Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change

By Peter Aldhous

Tudor Morgan, with HX Expeditions, passes a recording device called a SoundTrap to Heidi Ahonen, a bioacoustician who has launched the first long-term project to monitor whales in the Gerlache Strait using passive acoustic monitoring. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Listening for Whale Sounds 1,000 feet Deep in the Antarctic Ocean

By Teresa Tomassoni

New research shows how freshwater from melting ice along the edge of Antarctica is changing the density of ocean layers, which could weaken the world's strongest ocean current by 20 percent in the next 25 years. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

Global Warming Will Weaken Earth’s Strongest Ocean Current, New Study Predicts

By Bob Berwyn

“Thwaites really is considered ground zero for the possibility of accelerated sea level rise this century.” Credit: Elizabeth Rush

Q&A: What an Author’s Trip to the Antarctic Taught Her About Climate—and Collective Action

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Larsen B Ice Shelf

What the Melting of Antarctic Ice Shelves Means for the Planet

Interview by Steve Curwood, "Living on Earth"

New Book Documents Stark Climate Change in the Antarctic

By Jennifer Pinkowski

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