An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

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

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder ...

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

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...