Researchers have drilled deeper than ever before beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, uncovering evidence that the region was once part of an open ocean. The research team hopes that analyzing the ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

Antarctica has long been seen as Earth’s frozen shield, vast, remote, and seemingly unbreakable. Yet scientists are now ...

A study more than 20 years in the making reports a rapid rise in Antarctic sea levels. The cause? Melting ice shelves. That's an especially big deal for a continent covered in ice, and the scientists ...

If we keep burning fossil fuels indefinitely, global warming will eventually melt all the ice at the poles and on ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Meltwater could undermine the walls of ice holding back Antarctica's glaciers, scientists reported on Wednesday, a finding that underscores concern about the potential for a ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing areas on Earth. By studying the Arctic and Antarctic, she and other scientists ...

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, used ...