Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, ...

On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice free. Scientists were able to reach places never sampled before. Over the ...

A region beneath Antarctica where gravity is measurably weaker than anywhere else on Earth has puzzled geophysicists for ...

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

The collapsing sea ice around the Antarctic continent has led to a doubling in the number of icebergs calving from ice sheets and a surge in sea temperatures, and the impacts are growing more severe ...

In just the past year, researchers have uncovered new geological structures, traces of ancient stardust, and thriving ecosystems beneath Antarctica's ice shelves. Together, these discoveries paint a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive chunk of sea ice in West Antarctica has not refrozen following a winter heatwave in the region – a dramatic change that ...

For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the seasonal growth and retreat of Antarctic sea ice—frozen seawater that expands ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

The majority of Antarctica is covered in a thick sheet of ice, but what lies beneath its frozen surface has largely remained a mystery. A rare look at the subglacial landscape of the frozen continent ...