Antarctica is shedding ice, heat, and stability in ways that are no longer confined to obscure scientific journals or distant ...

If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

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 ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

This is not good news for the future of our planet.

There are fewer ice nuclei in the air above the large ice surfaces of Antarctica than anywhere else in the world. This is the ...

The Ross Ice Shelf appears to be melting in previously unknown ways. This is an Inside Science story. Most of the worry over melting ice in Antarctica has focused on the rapidly melting western shore, ...

Very few places on Earth feel truly untouched. Antarctica is one of them.It’s the coldest, driest, and windiest continent, ...