A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Amid growing geopolitical tensions and a rapidly changing global energy landscape, one of the most surprising revelations in ...

The continent is dedicated to research and cooperation, but proposed funding cuts in the Trump administration and actions by ...

Arctic sea ice, not a thick ice shelf like what we observe in Antarctic today (above), shaped the far north for 750,000 years. Photo credit: Matthias Forwick.

Was the movie Alien vs Predator right? Is there really an ancient Pyramid in Antarctica? Cause if that's the case, that would mean it's millions of years older than Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, which is ...

As Midwinter Day approaches in Antarctica – the longest and darkest day of the year – those spending the winter on the frozen continent will follow a tradition dating back more than a century to the ...

It was frozen in time. Antarctica wasn’t always a desolate icescape. International researchers announced the discovery of an over 30-million-year-old lost world beneath the Antarctic ice that ...

Antarctica has its own 'shield' against warm water—but this could now be under threat by Ellie Ong, Edward Doddridge, Matthew England and Navid Constantinou, The Conversation ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

The Antarctic Treaty System, in place since 1961, is principally dedicated to the environmental threats that arise locally, including those from fishing, tourism and scientific research.

This recent discovery sheds light on a complex interaction between ice melt and volcanic activity. As Antarctica gradually loses its ice cover, the pressure on the underlying magma reservoirs ...

A diagram shows one way the curtains could prevent warm seawater from reaching the terminus of the glacier. Credit: Nature Researchers are divided on the Thwaites Glacier’s stability, with new studies ...