If the ice blanketing Antarctica were to vanish, the world’s shorelines would be redrawn so radically that some countries ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier ...

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

Scientists uncover how a flat seabed triggered Hektoria Glacier’s record collapse, offering new warnings for Antarctica’s ice and rising seas.

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

Travel to the end of the earth—as Ushuaia, Argentina, is called. Then travel beyond it, to the islands, coves and research ...

Fast-moving ocean motions under the Antarctic ice act like storms and melt ice quickly. These forces could speed up sea-level ...

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

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...

Working in Antarctica comes with risks most people never imagine. Because brutal winters make evacuation impossible for ...

The town of Greybull sent a disproportionately large number of workers to Antarctica in the '80s and '90s to keep the McMurdo ...