The curious minds at What If uncover the chilling dangers of falling into a hidden, ice-covered Antarctic lake.

Ecosystems in Antarctic subglacial lakes — buried some 3 kilometres beneath the ice — might have evolved in complete isolation for millions of years, and some microbes in the pitch-dark ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering an ancient ecosystem hidden beneath the ice for thousands, possibly millions, of years. This revelation offers a rare glimpse ...

A sudden salinity spike in the Southern Ocean is accelerating Antarctic ice loss and triggering a dangerous climate feedback ...

How a remote Antarctic base clean-up protected one of Earth's clearest lakes. by Keith Lyons, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research ...

Beneath the thick ice of East Antarctica lies a hidden world—untouched for over 34 million years. This frozen expanse, more than 10 million square kilometers wide, has long concealed a forgotten ...

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 ...

In the southern flanks of the Indian Ocean and the central and eastern Pacific, just north of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, lie the Subantarctic Mode Waters. As part of the global ocean ...