Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

In a turn of events that has left the scientific community in a state of shock and intrigue, the oldest human remains ever discovered have been unearthed from the frosty expanses of Antarctica. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study reveals that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet thinned rapidly between 9,000 and 6,000 years ago, then likely re-thickened ...

Frozen air from Antarctica is giving scientists a longer look at a climate mystery that has lingered for decades: why Earth ...

Explains the history of Antarctica, focusing on the explorers and sailors drawn to the continent, the scientific investigations that have taken place there, and the geopolitical implications of the ...

Antarctica, the planet's largest repository of meteorites, is beginning to hide them under the ice due to global warming.

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even though it matters just as much. A new study of East Antarctica reaches back ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University ...