Antarctica stores most of the planet’s land ice in a sheet that is thousands of feet thick across vast areas. Converting all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newly identified fan-shaped basin system beneath East Antarctica may reshape views of Gondwana breakup and ice flow. (CREDIT: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still ...

Research involving the University of Liverpool has discovered a trend of increasing surface meltwater in East Antarctica. In an ambitious new study, they produced the first Antarctic-wide, ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

Scientists have confirmed that East Antarctica's interior is warming faster than its coastal areas and identified the cause. A 30-year study, published in Nature Communications and led by Nagoya ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

An alliance of 30 global environment organisations today launched a report calling for greater protection for the East Antarctic marine environment, on the eve of an international meeting where the ...

Relay Station, an unmanned weather station in the interior of East Antarctica. Unmanned stations are designed to survive Antarctic temperatures below -70°C and have revealed the main cause of warming ...