Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

The alarm bells are ringing as experts closely monitor the precarious state of Thwaites Glacier, dubbed the 'Doomsday Glacier ...

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic. The international ...

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 ...

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica's largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a ...

Learn how engineers design Antarctic stations for moving ice, heavy snow, high winds, limited logistics, and long-term ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Antarctica’s biggest secrets are not alien bases or hidden bunkers, but a buried world scientists are only beginning to map.

Located in West Antarctica, Thwaites is one of the largest and fastest-changing glaciers on Earth. Roughly the size of Great Britain — or the US state of Florida — it already contributes around 4% of ...

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica’s largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a ...