Antarctic Peninsula

Global warming is forcing ice shelves to calve, producing icebergs like this monolith jutting into the waters of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Icebergs grind against the shallows off the Rothera base, run by the British Antarctic Survey, on the Antarctic Peninsula, January 25, 2009.

Unusually low temperatures also affected parts of Antarctica, especially west of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The Antarctic Peninsula has seen some of the fastest temperature rises on Earth in the last five decades.

The little carnivore -- about 6 feet tall -- was found on James Ross Island, off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.

The accelerating flow of these and more than 400 other Antarctic Peninsula glaciers is adding to sea-level rise.

I'm trying to travel there to find 5, 000 year-old moss, which lives on the Antarctic Peninsula.

What's happened is that the waters around the Antarctic peninsula have begun to get warmer.

Inspired by a trip to the Antarctic Peninsula, the painting "became a group portrait of soon to be extinct things, " said Rockman.

That province of ice, a body of permanent floating ice about the size of Connecticut, lies on the western edge of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Runners arrive by boat on King George Island just off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

As the UN talks inched on, news came that an "ice bridge" yoking the Wilkins ice shelf to the Antarctic Peninsula had snapped.

"Eighty-seven percent of the alpine glaciers are in retreat, " said Martinson of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

In late Southern Hemisphere summer of 2002, the Larsen B Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated into thousands of pieces.

Krill populations are dwindling, especially on the Antarctic Peninsula, where warming temperatures mean less sea ice.

A solitary chinstrap penguin stands at attention on the rocky shore of the Antarctic Peninsula.

In Antarctica, warm conditions appear in some inland areas and especially over the Antarctic Peninsula.

The impact of climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula is evident in new satellite data, US researchers say.

The two warmest anomalies on the planet this past summer were Eastern Europe and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Arctic sea ice, Greenland's ice sheet, and glaciers in the Alps and the Antarctic Peninsula are all melting faster.

Temperatures were extremely warm in western Russia and the Antarctic Peninsula.

Laura Phair of Livemore. California, snapped this photo of the Antarctic Peninsula when she passed by on the Star Princess cruise ship.

Sea birds like penguins live on the Antarctic Peninsula, because the weather isn't quite so terrible there.

Not many people live on the Antarctic Peninsula and an anomaly of even several degrees in winter there is not a big deal.

Majestic: This iceberg floating off the Western Antarctic peninsula has been carved into a bridge by the sea and polar winds

Huddle: Gentoo Penguins and Chinstrap Penguins gather on an iceberg on the Western Antarctic Peninsula

Evidence for an Earliest Oligocene Ice Sheet on the Antarctic Peninsula

Ice-atmosphere interactions during sea-ice advance and retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula region

Apportionment of black carbon in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctic Peninsula

Strong surface melting preceded collapse of Antarctic Peninsula ice shelf

Recent Rapid Regional Climate Warming on the Antarctic Peninsula

Over the past 50 years the fastest rise in temperatures on Earth has been on the Antarctic Peninsula, in the west of the continent;

the antarctic peninsula is one of the three fastest - warming regions on earth - temperatures have risen 2 . 5 degrees in 50 years

Just east of the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula

arrives first at the Antarctic Peninsula,