The Antarctic Ice Sheet locks away the single largest reserve of fresh water on the planet, a frozen stockpile so vast that ...

Hidden Southern Ocean currents plunge more than half a mile deep and help power Antarctica's vast carbon sink, a new ...

Antarctic sea life - including the oldest living creatures on the planet - are at risk from increasing number of ships dropping anchor there, warns a new report. Underwater video footage has revealed ...

Scientists have identified a hidden climate tipping point that changed how Antarctica's ice sheet responds to warming.

Picture sea ice in your mind. You probably imagine brilliant white, snow-covered floes floating on the surface of the ocean, ...

West Antarctica's "Doomsday Glacier" is on the brink of losing its ice shelf, further compromising the already melting ice ...

"Warm" water is flowing toward one of Antarctica's biggest ice shelves, which, if it melted, could dramatically raise sea levels. In a study published Nov. 14, 2024 in the Journal of Geophysical ...

Scientists have known about places such as the Wilkes Basin, the Aurora Basin and Lake Vostok for years. Lake Vostok, in ...

Antarctica has long been seen as Earth’s frozen shield, vast, remote, and seemingly unbreakable. Yet scientists are now warning that some of its most fragile regions may have crossed a dangerous ...

Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice – frozen ...

From Dec. 16 to Jan. 15, Peter Smith, principal investigator for the Phoenix Mars Mission, and six of his colleagues took a trip to Antarctica to explore a landscape resembling the one on the Red ...