Captain James Cook's third and final attempt to sail south in search of the elusive Terra Australis was blocked by ...

In West Antarctica, the interior of the ice sheet sits atop bedrock that lies well below sea level. As the Southern Ocean warms, scientists are concerned the ice sheet will continue to retreat ...

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

The result is a map that fills in critical gaps, particularly in East Antarctica’s deep interior and along the West Antarctic coastlines. The volume of ice that sits atop the continent at the South ...

But it's possible that catastrophic ice-sheet collapse could happen in the foreseeable future, and the processes that could trigger it at the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica — one of the ...

Article continues below The phenomenon is causing rising sea levels, especially in the Amundsen Sea of West Antarctica. An international team of researchers from the Korea Polar Research Institute ...

A new detailed map of Antarctica is set to significantly improve predictions of how ice flows and melts in response to ...

China currently has five stations in Antarctica, including one that opened last year. It has now lodged plans for a new summer research station in West Antarctica — with China's Ambassador to ...

In some places, ice has thinned by more than 120 metres. West Antarctica has been by far the most affected – a recent study by 80 polar scientists found that between 2012 and 2017 the region was ...

The Antarctica Peninsula where to the west Chile and Argentina are hoping to establish an MPS Argentine and Chilean relations have not been traditionally smooth given the several borderline ...