A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

Recent satellite images from NASA’s Earth Observatory reveal a concerning trend: Antarctic sea ice has reached its ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

This undated image shows chunks of ice in the North Cove in Antarctica. (Michael Shortt/British Antarctic Survey via AP) (CN) — A saltier, warmer ocean likely sounds inviting — unless you’re a penguin ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the ...

Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...

Scientists have documented that global warming is causing ice sheets and glaciers across the globe to shrink, which in turn is pushing sea levels higher. Now a researcher at the University of Missouri ...

Far beneath Antarctica’s ice and fringing seas, scientists have revealed a labyrinth of more than 300 hidden canyons that ...