NASA satellite data have revealed that Antarctica experienced a surprising ice mass gain between 2021 and 2023, despite ...

Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that increases in salinity in seawater ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about what lies under the Antarctic ice sheet. Covered in ice for around 34 ...

East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By ...

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss ...

About two-thirds of Antarctic tourists land on the continent. The visitors can threaten fragile ecosystems by: Even when ...