While researching a separate topic, Naomi Ochwat noticed that a glacier in Antarctica had shrunk by 50%. What she learned was ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Antarctica is often seen as frozen, silent, and unchanging, with sharp winds, cold waters, and endless ice. But even this ...

Around 12,000 years ago, the last Ice Age ended, global temperatures rose and the early Holocene began, during which time ...

When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new research shows the Southern Ocean ...

This year's ozone hole over Antarctica ranked among the smallest since the early 1990s, reflecting steady progress from ...

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

Neumayer III Antarctic station was built on 16 hydraulic stilts that can lift the 20,000-square-foot facility over the ...

Weathered rocks sitting above the ice hold iron concentrations up to ten times higher than earlier reports from elsewhere in ...

The Polar Star is making the trip as part of Operation Deep Freeze, the annual resupply of U.S. outposts under the U.S.

If you were to wander along the parts of Antarctica that are ice-free, you might be surprised to see something soft and ...