Antarctica is breaking apart in two very different directions. While West Antarctica hemorrhages ice into warming seas at an ...

An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, an area long thought to be stable and not hit much by climate change, concerned scientists say. The collapse, captured by ...

A robotic float has measured the temperature and salinity from parts of the ocean never sampled before—underneath massive ...

Why it's incredible: Evidence suggests it could be the greatest known impact crater on Earth. The Wilkes Land crater is a hole in the bedrock beneath East Antarctica's ice sheet measuring 315 miles ...

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

And so, the Argo float’s trip under the ice turned out to be an incredibly lucky accident. During an eight-month period, the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANTARCTICA (AP) — An ice shelf the size of ...

Ask people to name the coldest country in the world, and the answer almost instinctively given is Antarctica. The confusion ...

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

New study at South Pole discovers embayment the size of the UK formed part of East Antarctica’s elusive edge. East Antarctica is the least known region of Earth. Studying this remote part of the ...