Armed with lab equipment and two months of food and clothes, around 60 researchers boarded the RSV Nuyina icebreaker ship for ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, ...

A trip to Antarctica might feel less like crossing the ocean and more like crossing the galaxy, but what happens there ...

Over the past two decades, satellite-based planetary observations have recorded rapid mass loss of Patagonian glaciers, contributing approximately 0.07 mm per year to global sea-level rise. A study ...

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Wealthy adventurers and bucket listers rub shoulders with scientists looking to gather data as funding vanishes under the ...

West Antarctica, home to one of Earth's largest ... This historic pattern confirms the researchers' models: melting glaciers can directly lead to increased volcanic eruptions.

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to researchers.