Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

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

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

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

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

Pine Island Glacier, one of the fastest-shrinking glaciers in Antarctica, hastened its slide into the sea between 2017 and ...

The peninsula region experienced temperatures near 65 degrees Fahrenheit. Images out of a northern region of Antarctica show a landscape nearly devoid of ice and snow after record-setting temperatures ...

There are fewer ice nuclei in the air above the large ice surfaces of Antarctica than anywhere else in the world. This is the ...

If you were to wander along the parts of Antarctica that are ice-free, you might be surprised to see something soft and ...