As glaciers melt, they can also increase the risk of deadly floods and landslides. A glacial collapse in Switzerland this ...

What if the icy lands of Antarctica, often in the news for melting, started growing instead? Scientists have recently shared ...

When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

Antarctica may appear to be an endless expanse of ice, but beneath its frozen surface lies a complex and dramatic landscape ...

The ancient Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains in the middle of East Antarctica are entombed beneath kilometres of ice ...

The world is on the brink of a climate apocalypse—one caused not by gradual greenhouse emissions but by a sudden exchange of ...

The deep cracking sound bursting from within the ice signals the dramatic fall about to happen. Seconds later, a block of ice some 70 meters (230 ft) tall - the size of a 20-story building ...

In the autumn of 2021, an international team of researchers from New Zealand’s Antarctic Science Platform set off towards the South Pole. Their destination was the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica, a ...

Martinson) In the meantime, while the unexpected, decades-long overall increases in Antarctic sea ice extent are still being puzzled out, the sea ice extent has taken a dramatic turn from relatively ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic ...