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

A note displayed in the video reads: "Walking towards the light inside an ice cave in Antarctica," with a hint of the play of natural light reflecting off the walls and casting a pale ...

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The continent of Antarctica was only discovered a little over 200 years ago, in 1820, by three independent teams from Russia, Great Britain, and the USA. Yet in those two centuries, our knowledge of ...

ANTARCTICA — The world's biggest iceberg — a wall of ice the size of Rhode Island — is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that's home to millions of penguins and seals.

The Antarctic ice sheet ... to push a system beyond a point of no return. The melting works like this: relatively warm ocean water opens cavities in the ice, allowing more water to seep in ...

When scientist Diana Wall ... ice, and then the valleys, where Wall would return every year for the next quarter-century to examine the lives of nematodes, small roundworms that thrive in ...

The core is a "time machine" that records "an extraordinary archive of Earth's climate," said Carlo Barbante, coordinator of the Beyond EPICA, or European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica ...