A study published today found that while ice shelves in West Antarctica melt year-round, those in East Antarctica experience ...

The busy Antarctic season is highlighted by two long crossings, two round trips to the South Pole and back, and an unusual ...

In a remote part of Antarctica's western Weddell Sea, an area once hidden beneath a 200-meter-thick ice shelf, scientists ...

The ice sample, retrieved in Antarctica, is the oldest on record—but this discovery may just be tip of the iceberg.

As Phys.org reported, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, a research vessel owned by the Natural Environment Research Council and ...

A team of U.S. researchers uncovered the world’s oldest directly dated ice and air trapped deep within the Allan Hills region ...

Hurricane Melissa is now a rare Category 5 storm as it closes in on a historic, catastrophic landfall in Jamaica Maryland man ...

The search for a famed polar exploration shipwreck led researchers to discover geometric patterns created by fish on the Antarctic seafloor.

Far below the ice, the secrets of our planet's past hang on – and so do those of the aliens we may one day meet out near ...

New research into how East Antarctica's ice shelves melt reveals future global sea-level rise predictions could be significantly underestimated.A ...

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica.The ...

Scientists scooped out an ice core from Antarctica and investigated it to design Earth's 'climate snapshots' dating back ...