Gigantic iceberg breaks off George VI Ice Shelf, exposing century-old underwater ecosystem with Antarctic sponges and corals.

This incident underscores a stark reality: Under some climate scenarios, scientists predict, 80 percent of Antarctica’s emperor penguin colonies will disappear by the turn of the century.

The Tasman Sea's winter temperatures can influence heat flow to the Antarctic Peninsula through atmospheric ripple effects.

A 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck off the southern coasts of Chile and Argentina on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.

Since 1974 a particular area of ice in Antarctica has been a mystery to scientists. That’s because periodically a hole would ...

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

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...