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

Predominantly desert, the continent would gain a new inland ... East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so large—it contains four-fifths of all the ice on Earth—that it might seem ...

Instead of being a polar desert characterized by colossal ice sheets and glaciers, it may have been a swampy land of rainforests dominated by ferns and conifer trees. Scientists from the Alfred ...

For the first time, researchers have collected detailed measurements of water vapor high above the surface of the Greenland ice sheet. Their research, aided by a custom-designed drone, could help ...