Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, specialized equipment, and a tolerance for temperatures that would stop most field ...

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 total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead to 11 feet of sea-level rise, according to scientists who study Antarctica ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In just the past year, researchers have uncovered new geological structures, traces of ancient stardust, and thriving ecosystems ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern ...