Antarctica hides much more than an icy expanse. Beneath miles (kilometers) of ice, a 500-million-year-old mountain range is puzzling scientists. This discovery sheds light on the dynamics ...

Neff said he worries that previous assumptions about East Antarctica's stability may not be correct. And that's important because if the water frozen in East Antarctica melted - and that's a ...

East Antarctica – home to the South Pole – is where the most frigid conditions on Earth are found and is typically protected from this kind of extreme warmth, according to Mikolajczyk.

West Antarctica is headed for decades of rapid melting no matter how quickly humans cut greenhouse gas emissions, and 2023 shattered records for missing sea ice around the continent.

Antarctica appears sparse. Nothing but white ice, glaciers and harsh conditions that only a few animals have adapted to ...

Imagine yourself standing in East Antarctica, far away from the penguin-dotted coasts. (Not right now, in the middle of southern winter. Imagine it's December or January, when the sun never quite ...

A buried secret. The Gamburtsev Mountains are buried beneath the highest point of the East Antarctica ice sheet.They were first discovered by a Soviet expedition using seismic techniques in 1958.

Glaciers in East Antarctica will lose more ice in the future than previously thought, scientists reported Friday, in an alarming feedback loop where glacier meltwater is triggering even more ice ...

As Antarctica began to cool slightly, small glaciers grew in the river valleys, Jamieson said. But then a large cooling event occurred, leading to the expansion of the growth of East Antarctica ...

An ancient landscape, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been found beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica. The area, untouched for more than 34 million years, covers around 12,000 square miles ...

East Antarctica is, in many respects, a giant cipher at the bottom of the world. “It's like saying we have weather stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York, ...