In 2016, the extent of sea ice in Antarctica dropped abruptly. Prior to this, the ice had been stable and slightly increasing. The loss of Antarctic ...

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

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said Robin E. Bell, referring to icy moons. Bell is a research professor at Columbia ...

Earlier this year, a gigantic iceberg fell from the Antarctic ice sheet. When the approximately ... shaped sponge that could be hundreds of years old, according to The Washington Post.

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Lake Vostok is roughly 34 million years old, but Bell is among the researchers ... understanding how water flows under the thick ice of Antarctica. And perhaps, even faraway moons.

The latest finding at depths as great as 1,300m below the sea surface offers fresh insights into how ecosystems function beneath floating sections of the Antarctic ice sheet. Until now ...

There’s an old saying. It’s better to be lucky than good ... ice shelves are continuations of ice sheet that is grounded. So interior of Antarctic ice sheet, you can find ice that is 12,000 meter ...

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica ... octopuses, ice fish, corals and sponges, including a vase-shaped one that might be hundreds of years old. In total, the researchers believe ...