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

These ecosystems, which occupy permanently ice ... to the Antarctic Treaty System. This is particularly important as the review of the Protocol approaches. Even though it might seem like a long ...

Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

The West Antarctic ice sheet could cause metres of sea level rise if it collapses – but more than 120,000 years ago, it may have survived an even warmer period than it is experiencing now ...

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

A historic ice core recently drilled from deep beneath the Antarctic surface by the Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice project. Credit: Scoto © / PNRA / IPEV At an extremely ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain looks like a human-made pyramid ... Scientists peered into a secret Antarctic lake hidden beneath the ice — and uncovered a never-before-seen ecosystem ...

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 ...