Antarctica sits atop one of the planet’s most powerful climate levers. The frigid waters encircling the continent soak up a ...

The environment is changing rapidly around the melting Thwaites Glacier. Seals can collect data in waters that ships could ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and ...

If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...

The accelerating melt of the Thwaites Glacier has prompted an unprecedented proposal: the construction of an 80-kilometer ...

The study claims that Pine Island glacier's ice flow has increased in recent years, as the ice shelf in front of it is losing ...

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 ...

Some regions of the continent have enough ice to push up sea levels by 15 metres if they all melt, but researchers don’t yet fully understand the consequences ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and spanning ...

As ice loss speeds up in Antarctica, researchers warn it may disrupt one of the planet’s biggest natural climate buffers.

An expedition to Antarctica has brought scientists and researchers to the widest glacier on Earth. The Thwaites Glacier is ...