Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

Researchers from Brown University conducted 4,000 computer simulations to examine how ice sheet loss influences Antarctica's buried volcanoes.

An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

A team of 16 scientists and support staffers spent four summers drilling through Antarctic ice until they finally reached bedrock. To accomplish their goal, they endured average temperatures of -25.6 ...

Antarctica holds 90% of the world’s fresh water and God help us, if it melts], whales will be swimming in the streets of New York — Jacques Yves Cousteau ...

A comparison of polar sea ice extents on two random days does not provide enough information to determine whether or not Earth's climate is changing.

Scientists have successfully extracted what is likely the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2 million years, from deep within Antarctica. Working in extreme conditions of -35 degree C, the team ...

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By the end of 2024, Antarctic sea ice extent had recovered to 7.3 million square kilometres (2.8 million square miles) -- very close to the 1981 to 2010 average, NSIDC said.