A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...

Scientists say they have drilled deeper than ever beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, peering back millions of years to reveal signs it was once, at least in part, open ocean.

A persistent "gravity hole" beneath Antarctica gives scientists a window into Earth's deep interior, showing how processes ...

A 23-million-year record hidden beneath Antarctica’s ice may reshape forecasts of how rising temperatures affect global ...

In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, ...

It’s not easy to find silver linings amid the rapid, human-driven destabilization of Earth’s climate—though that hasn’t ...

For the past three decades, glaciologist Helen Amanda Fricker has been investigating polar regions — the fastest changing ...

Mining is banned on the frozen continent. But new research suggests that could change as ice melts and land and valuable minerals are exposed.

Scientists testing a popular climate theory in Antarctica found that melting glaciers deliver far less iron to the ocean than ...

Under Antarctica’s miles-thick ice sheet, scientists have identified 207 possible volcanoes that may be speeding up ice melt and raising global sea levels, according to a recent study published in ...

Researchers reporting in Nature Climate Change conclude that several Antarctic ice drainage basins may already be committed ...