A little-known ocean current surrounds Antarctica, shielding it from warm water farther north. But our new research published ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

ROME, Jan 31 (Reuters) - An Italian ice-breaker carrying scientists researching in the Antarctic has sailed further south than any ship has done before, the organisers of the voyage said on ...

A chemical analysis of rocks from an ancient lost world hidden beneath the ice sheets of Antarctica has yielded several new ...

CLIMATEWIRE | Antarctic sea ice shrank to an all-time record in February ... The string of record-breakers could be a fingerprint of climate change. But scientists can't say for sure.

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the ... This new core will be brought back to Europe aboard an ice breaker that must keep it at -58 degrees Fahrenheit.

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed ...

Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen ...

like these Adelie penguins near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what's below the ice these penguins waddle on every day? . | Credit: Patrick J. Endres via Getty Images Almost 90% of ...

The Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has shown signs of record-breaking growth after decades of contributing to global sea-level rise — as experts reveal their theories why. A study published in ...