The Antarctic Slope Current shields Antarctica from warm waters. But new research shows meltwater is speeding up the current, which could make it more unstable.

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

Scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to uncover a buried river system that may reshape predictions of melting and ...

Purple pigmentation in a diverse array of algae absorbs heat and creates a feedback loop responsible for 2% of total daily ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, ...

Scientists have been warning that Antarctica has been losing ice mass at an alarming rate over the past couple decades. The consequences of which will raise sea levels around the world.

Antarctica has gained ice in recent years, despite increasing average global temperatures and climate change, a new study finds. Using data from NASA satellites, researchers from Tongji University ...

The authors behind that study attempted to find such old ice, taking a “debris-rich ice core” measuring 944 centimeters (372 ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels hardly varied. That changed in the twentieth century. Sea levels started rising and ...

like these Adelie penguins near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what's below the ice these penguins waddle on every day? . | Credit: Patrick J. Endres via Getty Images Almost 90% of ...