Uncovering the collapse of the British and Irish ice sheet could help predict what's in store for Antarctica. View on ...

Mass changes across the Antarctic ice sheet have been detected using satellite gravimetry, revealing significant ...

Scientists at Little Dome C recovered the oldest continuous ice core, unlocking 1.2 million years of Earth’s climate history.

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian drilling team is hoping to go even further back in time ...

When a massive, black patch, known as a polynya, was spotted by NASA scientists for the first time, satellite operators were ...

In early January, the start of summer in Antarctica ... Members of the U.S.–led Whillans Ice Stream Sub­glacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project targeted a lake at the southeastern ...

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that during the last ice age—about 18,000 to 20,000 years ...

A new study reveals there was a time when massive icebergs, like the ones we see in Antarctica today, were drifting less than ...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...

Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

During this time, an ice sheet covering ... Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) discovered the evidence in seismic survey data used to locate drilling platforms in the Witch Ground ...