A new map of Antarctica’s seafloor reveals a vast and previously overlooked network of 332 submarine canyons, some plunging ...

Antarctica faces abrupt and irreversible changes impacting ice sheets, oceans, and ecosystems. Scientists warn of global ...

A study published today in Earth System Dynamics provides a critical and previously underestimated connection between Antarctic sea ice, cloud cover, and global warming. This research is important ...

Although they haven't found older continuous ice yet, their survey revealed new insights about the geologic processes happening under the Antarctic ice sheet and how ice is moving around beneath it.

As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ...

Hektoria glacier on the Antarctic Peninsula lost nearly half its size astonishingly rapidly. Scientists have now discovered ...

Duncan Young, a research scientist at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics in front of a modified DC-3 airplane used to conduct scientific surveys in Antarctica. For decades, researchers ...