A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach -40°C or lower in the interior, with the lowest ever temperature on Earth ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ...

Antarctica's ice cores are like frozen diaries of Earth's past, preserving ancient air and climate clues. Most continuous ...

Antarctica remained largely overlooked for another half-century, until it once again became of interest during the International Geophysical Year (IGY), from July 1957 to December 1958. The ...

Scientists discovered 6-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, offering the oldest direct record of Earth’s ancient atmosphere ...

We know the Earth is old, but getting direct evidence of the deep past is hard, that's why the latest discovery out of ...

An explorer and a glaciologist have embarked on a three-month mission to cross part of Antarctica on kite skis in search of ...