A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

The Antarctic ice sheet holds enough frozen water to redraw the world’s coastlines, and one outlet in particular has become a ...

Scientists have long opposed polar geoengineering. Some now believe it will be necessary.

Meltwater is scrambling chemical signals in mountain glaciers, pushing scientists to store fragile ice cores in Antarctica.

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

A study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth ...

What happens when the world’s most frozen places start thawing at the same time? For decades, Antarctica seemed like the steadfast sibling to Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet a remote, frigid ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and the Southern Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon dioxide.