Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers could have dramatic global consequences.

Researchers were working off the coast of Antarctica when it happened: A gigantic iceberg about 19 miles long cracked off the ice sheet on Jan. 13, revealing a swath of ocean that had not seen ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra ...

Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically ...

The authors observe that the drainage of subglacial lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increases melting of ice shelf by the ocean, and contributes to grounding line retreat ...

Travelers desiring to reach Antarctica must pass through the 600-mile-spanning Drake Passage, where oceans collide, whipping ...

Sea ice is sea water that freezes at temperatures below 1.6 degrees centigrade and is very important to the Antarctic environment. Brine channels are created in the ice, which are microscopic tubes ...

This is the first research in which experts incorporated the factor of 'subglacial plumbing' to analyse retreating Antarctica's glaciers.