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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In that moderate emissions scenario, we found the highest sea-level rise from Antarctic ice melt alone, up to 5 feet (1.5 ...

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 ...