Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking mainly due to frequent small calving events, while major iceberg break-offs remain rare ...

Scientists have mapped Antarctica’s ice-free ecosystems, highlighting their biodiversity and growing climate threats.

Antarctica, often regarded as the planet's last true wilderness, harbors unique ecosystems that support extraordinary ...

With Antarctica's climate warming at an unprecedented rate, scientists are battling with dangerously thin ice and equipment falling through into the sea beneath. For 20 years, Simon Morley has ...

Scientists have successfully analyzed more than 30 years of vital data on the thickness of landfast sea ice in Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, which will prove useful to measure future impacts of climate ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters) deep ...

Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA. These images, snapped by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on January 1, show pools of pale blue meltwater ...

So, here’s the scoop: a major oil discovery in Antarctica has got everyone buzzing, and it’s stirring up quite a debate about ...

the continent would gain a new inland sea—but it would lose much of the narrow coastal strip where four out of five Australians now live. East Antarctica: The East Antarctica ice sheet is so ...

It can be seen that Iceland is a nation of fire and ice due to its many volcanic features ... harness this energy for global environmental and economic gain, which is still impossible to do in ...