In Antarctica, two giant rifts, known as Chasm 1 and Halloween Crack, split across the Brunt Ice Shelf. The implications of ...

Warm seawater is pushing farther beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves and even under grounded ice than scientists previously ...

Drilling through nearly two miles of Antarctic ice is not something you do casually. It takes years of preparation, ...

Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.

Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot mountains, active "Ring of Fire" volcanoes and the coldest surface temperature ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

Researchers have identified the first-ever dinosaur fossil discovered on Antarctica, revealing it belonged to a titanosaur.

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

A rare dinosaur fossil from Antarctica was tucked away for decades before finally being identified as part of a large titanosaur that once roamed Earth’s southernmost continent. The fossil was first ...

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 metres, were it to fully melt. Yet it has puzzled scientists for decades how and why this ...