A Russian team drilling toward Lake Vostok, a pristine freshwater lake buried 3,750 meters under the Antarctic ice had to conclude its task and will have to wait for the next season to finish off ...

I n the heart of Antarctica’s Victoria Land, hidden under 14 meters of thick ice, lies Lake Enigma, a body of water long believed to be entirely frozen.Now, scientists have discovered that this ...

Furthermore, they found it in a place they least expected — living under an Antarctic frozen lake. Shutterstock Image While researching the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica, scientists ...

An overlooked Antarctic water system could raise sea levels by more than 2 meters by 2300, computer simulations show.

More than 2,000 feet beneath the surface, Lake Whillans covers around 20 ... the world the first glimpse of what its like under this huge Antarctic ice sheet that was previously thought to be ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea levels 2 metres higher by 2300 than currently predicted.

Lake Vostok is roughly 34 million years ... and help researchers better understanding how water flows under the thick ice of Antarctica. And perhaps, even faraway moons.

Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh went to Antarctica and became the first person to swim in a supraglacial lake to highlight climate change. A supraglacial lake is defined as “any pond of liquid ...

If the sheets of ice that sit on top of Antarctica and Greenland were to ... building massive walls under the ice sheets to prevent them from falling apart. It would be a geoengineering effort ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 60, No. 4 (2015), pp. 1139-1155 (17 pages) Lake Untersee, Antarctica, is a freshwater perennially ice covered lake bounded along its north by the Anuchin glacier. The ...