Deep under almost three kilometers of Antarctic ice, scientists expected to find a frozen archive of Earth’s distant past.

The Antarctic seafloor is one of the last truly unseen places on Earth, and the machines we send into that darkness are ...

Antarctic ice loss increased rapidly in past climates when oceans warmed first, raising risks for modern coastlines.

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

A record of repeated retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the past warm climates has been identified by IODP Exp379 ...

Ultimately, researchers determined that prior climate models omitted key features and underestimated the extent to which warm ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

The extent and speed of ice moving off the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica into the sea—an important dynamic for ...

Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water that attack the ice from below. These secretive currents, spinning in the ...