When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Giant icebergs the size of cities once drifted off the coast of Britain, scientists find - Research could indicate how ...

In early January, the start of summer in Antarctica ... Members of the U.S.–led Whillans Ice Stream Sub­glacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project targeted a lake at the southeastern ...

A new study reveals there was a time when massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were drifting less than ...

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes over in winter but this hole was formed far from land, in the middle of ...

These included extensive surveying and mapping, such as seismic and radar studies, glaciology, ice core drilling, atmospheric research, and oceanography. Antarctica was shown to be a single ...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that during the last ice age—about 18,000 to 20,000 years ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.