New Antarctic research shows the deepest layer of the Southern Ocean is shrinking faster than scientists realized, with the ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Researchers have collected the first multi-year record of ocean conditions hidden beneath Antarctica’s largest ice shelf, ...

Millions of years before thick ice spread across the Northern Hemisphere, forces inside Earth lifted East Antarctica into a ...

An autonomous underwater vehicle named LASSIE has spent 48 hours continuously monitoring the seafloor beneath Antarctica’s ...

But the episode—together with Trump’s repeated talk of incorporating Canada as “the 51st state”—has spurred NATO allies in the Arctic region to step up their security activities. Canada pledged $28 ...

Nothing would remain but water. That is the way of ice. Fresh water poured into salt water, and each absorbed the other. Some observers thought they saw a bluer tinge in the ocean round about. In its ...

A new study uses boreholes drilled deep beneath Antarctic ice to investigate why the continent’s glaciers are accelerating.

In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

The first dinosaur fossil found on the Antarctic continent has been described scientifically. The fossil, a vertebra, was found on a British Antarctic Survey (BAS) expedition in 1985 but has only ...