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

A giant hole has appeared in the sea ice of Antarctica and it's as big as Switzerland. The sea in Antarctica usually freezes over in winter but this hole was formed far from land, in the middle of ...

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

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 ...

Beneath the great, white expanse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, a mysterious realm of streams and lakes lies out of sight. Much about this hidden water world remains poorly understood. But a new ...

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.

"Sea level is rising twice as fast now as it was just 25 years ago because all of that ice is melting so fast," Hayhoe said. A lot of that extra water is flowing to our shores from Antarctica ...

dropping a wall of ice into the ocean. Travel to Antarctica has reached the next stage of development. There are more visitors each year and the outside world is encroaching whether as bird flu or ...

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 ...