When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

In the 1990s, the Greenland Ice Sheet as well as the rest of the Arctic region were observed to be measurably thawing as a ...

Research led by polar scientists from Northumbria University has revealed new hope in natural environmental systems found in ...

When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

A giant phantom jelly is documented in the Bellingshausen Sea off Antarctica, at an area where the shelf break and slope are cut by several underwater gullies. This jellyfish can grow to a massive ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

Our ocean float spent years adrift in the Antarctic ocean and beneath massive ice shelves. What it found will help us ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

In Antarctica, beneath the ice, there is liquid water—and potentially a lot of it. That’s the takeaway from new research that ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before — underneath massive ...