When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

Antarctica is one of only two places on the planet almost completely covered by ice sheets, with Greenland being the other. The Antarctic ice sheet covers about 98% of the continent's land mass ...

and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara who specializes in Antarctic research. With the advent of remote submersible robots it ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...

On Oct. 29, 2012, Superstorm Sandy unleashed a 14-foot (4 meters) wall of seawater into ... During cold (glacial) cycles, ice sheets sprawled across Antarctica, Greenland and North America ...

However, Antarctic sea ice, which surrounds the south pole, has shrunk to a near-record low. On 25 February, the Antarctic sea ice reached its minimum extent for the year, covering 722,000 sq ...

One of the most astonishing discoveries was evidence from fossils that Antarctica had once been part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana — a warm and ice-free terrain, teeming with life.

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ice loss. A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

and Marine Biology at UC Santa Barbara who specializes in Antarctic research. With the advent of remote submersible robots it shouldn't be hard to work under significant ice, he said, but it ...