The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Deep beneath the frozen desert of western Antarctica, an active volcanic rift stirs silently, concealed under an ice sheet up ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

"Fast ice," also known as land-fast ice, is sea ice that remains attached to the coastline for at least 15 days, and in Antarctica, it plays a vital role. This type of ice shields the continent's ...

The prop speed increases on the Basler aircraft. On board is the specially developed Polaris-radar and its inventors, the two ...

Australian scientists are monitoring the rapid melt of Denman Glacier, one of the largest frozen rivers in East Antarctica.

M ore than a hundred volcanoes lie beneath the Antarctic ice, and the release of some of the weight upon them could spur them ...

A wall of ice the size of Rhode Island is lumbering toward a remote island off Antarctica that’s home to millions of penguins and seals.

Beneath Antarctica's ice, an unsuspected danger looms ... The light arrows indicate the gradual decrease in ice thickness. With global warming, ice melt reduces this pressure. Simulations show that ...

The mega-iceberg, which is double the size of Greater London and weighs nearly a trillion tonnes, has been spinning ...