This NASA picture shows part of the Thwaites glacier, in Antarctica, which is the size of Britain (AFP Photo/HANDOUT) A huge project to build an undersea ‘wall’ in Antarctica could offer a last-ditch ...

From the outside, Antarctica just looks like a massive sheet of ice, but beneath the glaciers, it hides secret worlds and fascinating life forms. Not everyone can visit the icy continent, and for ...

A team of researchers including oceanographer Lia Siegelman of UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography co-authored a new study that describes storm-like ocean circulation patterns beneath ...

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean ...

Antarctica's sea ice started shrinking dramatically in 2015 after resisting global warming for decades, and researchers now know why. A study published May 8 in the journal Science Advances reveals ...

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 ...