Warm ocean water is reaching the underside of Antarctic ice shelves through narrow grooves that scientists have only recently ...

Half a kilometer beneath the surface of one of the most remote stretches of West Antarctica, a research team spent weeks ...

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

For years, climate models warned that warm deep water around Antarctica could edge closer to the continent's icy fringe. Now the ocean itself appears to be confirming it. A decades-long analysis of ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

The discovery of the life-forms growing on a boulder far beneath the ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, located in the southeastern Weddell Sea, came as a surprise to the the team of geologists, ...

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary. That is what an international team brought ...

(via Cleo Abram) In 1970, a team of Soviet scientists started drilling. For 28 years, they kept going… until after nearly 4,000 meters… they suddenly stopped. Because they’d found something ...