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

Experts have long worried about melting glaciers and icebergs, warning of accelerated sea-level rise, warming oceans, and low ...

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.

Researchers have drilled deeper than ever before beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, uncovering evidence that the region ...

Researchers have identified 138 candidate subglacial volcanoes hidden beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 91 of which had never been recognized before, raising serious questions about what happens ...

Under bone-chilling conditions, an international team of scientists has unlocked the secrets to better understand a ...

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...

“To our knowledge, the longest sediment cores previously drilled under an ice sheet are less than 10 m. We exceeded our ...

The 748-foot-long sediment core contains a record of roughly the past 23 million years, including periods when the planet's surface temperature was hotter than it is today ...

A deep Antarctic drill recovers sediments dating back 23 million years, offering rare insight into how ice sheets respond to global warming.

Deepest drill beneath Antarctic ice reveals an ancient ocean, sharpening sea-level risk forecasts. Read more at ...