A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...
Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...
Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level rise.
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...
It's about as remote as it gets, yet what happens in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica impacts all of us. And what's going on down there? Over the past few years, researchers have discovered dramatic ...
Antarctica's winter sea ice has hit its third-lowest peak in nearly half a century of satellite monitoring, researchers said Tuesday, highlighting the growing influence of climate change on the planet ...
Scientists have documented that global warming is causing ice sheets and glaciers across the globe to shrink, which in turn is pushing sea levels higher. Now a researcher at the University of Missouri ...
In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...
On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the ...
If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...
The Polar Star is making the trip as part of Operation Deep Freeze, the annual resupply of U.S. outposts under the U.S.