Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Every year, a few thousand people deploy to live on Antarctic research stations — and go through punishing survival training ...

As the weight of melting ice is lifted off volcanos, eruptions will become more common and more violent, according to a new study of volcanos in Chile’s Patagonia region, reports the Smithsonian ...

An international team of scientists have discovered a mysterious, ancient landscape hidden beneath the ice sheet of Eastern ...

Through an iterative process, we derive precise time series of elevation changes to meet the need for monitoring subglacial lake hydrological activities. Using this improved method, we obtained the ...

Known as Blood Falls, the waterfall pours crimson from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. As the five-story cascade slowly flows out of the glacier and into Lake Bonney, it leaves ...

While Antarctica might get all the buzz as an expedition cruise destination, the Great Lakes is an underrated gem—and ...

A submersible revealed hidden ice structures under the Antarctic before vanishing, highlighting the complexities of ice shelf melting dynamics.

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular organisms. When Earth entered a deep freeze, where did life manage to survive?

Researchers using a high-altitude balloon over Antarctica detected mysterious radio signals emerging from deep beneath the ice.

For years scientists believed these liquid waterways were down there and now they have proof.

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