Beneath Antarctica’s endless white surface lies a world most people never think about. Under kilometers of solid ice, the ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

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

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...

Buried beneath nearly 2 miles of Antarctic ice, a newly discovered fan-shaped geological structure is changing how scientists ...

It's just a question of whether we're fast enough to stretch out that loss to several thousand years versus dumb enough to ...

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...

Nearly 90 percent of Antarctica is buried under ice that averages about 1.3 miles or 2.2 kilometers thick. In some areas, the ice stacks up to nearly 3 miles or 4.8 kilometers deep. For years, ...

Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.