Topic: Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic ice tells conflicting story about climate change's role in big melt

Two different areas of Antarctica tell two very different stories about how climate change might be affecting ice melt. The data appear to confirm that climate change impacts can be very local.

West Antarctica warming much faster than expected

Antarctica started warming 600 years ago, study finds

Antarctic Peninsula now almost as warm as 12,000 years ago

Gigantic 'Grand Canyon' buried beneath Antarctic ice (+video)

Global warming spells bad news for emperor penguins, study finds

Is global warming responsible for chinstrap penguin decline? (+video)

Antarctic ice sheet at risk, say scientists

What's to blame for melting Antarctic ice? (+video)

Study finds way more emperor penguins than previously thought

Alien plant forms invading Antarctica

Fossil find could solve lingering Antarctic dinosaur mystery

Glacier melting a key clue to tracking climate change

If humans didn't cause global warming and cooling in the past, is that evidence they also aren't now?

New study: Less sea rise expected from possible Antarctic melt

Antarctic voyage

Climate change messes with the food chain

It's getting warmer in Antarctica

Formal human 'fingerprints' on polar climate

Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf eroding at an unforeseen pace