Beneath Antarctica's vast ice sheets lies an estimated 511 billion barrels of oil and gas—a discovery that has transformed ...

Scientists believe this pattern of weakening could be an early warning for other Antarctic ice shelves as well.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023, a dramatic reversal from decades of loss. Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall. The ...

Two decades of satellite and GPS data show the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf slowly losing its grip on a crucial stabilizing ...

Scientists revealed Tuesday that they had discovered a vast, hidden landscape of hills and valleys carved by ancient rivers that has been "frozen in time" under the Antarctic ice for millions of years ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is Earth's largest oceanic current, circling around Antarctica from west to east in alignment with Earth's rotation. This cold ocean current is driven primarily ...

International researchers announced the discovery of a potentially over 30-million-year-old lost world located more than a mile beneath the Antarctic ice that may have teemed with rivers, forests, and ...

Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the southernmost living mammals, are ...

SAN DIEGO — A San Diego lawyer will attempt one of the world's most challenging endurance races tomorrow on the frozen continent of Antarctica, facing extreme cold and treacherous conditions in what ...

For emperor penguins, sea ice is essential to survival. The iconic birds, found only in Antarctica, breed, lay their eggs, and raise their chicks on fast sea ice (meaning it is attached to land). They ...