Antarctica's icy wilderness is warming rapidly under the weight of human-driven climate change, yet a new study points to an ...

According to the team, the data suggests that penguin poop may be helping reduce some of climate change’s effects on an ...

This was no ordinary expedition. It marked the first in-depth study of the geology, ocean conditions, and marine life beneath ...

Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

Antarctica’s driest soils reveal thriving microbial life, ancient DNA, and complex ecosystems—reshaping what we know about ...

Tucked away on Goudier Island, Port Lockroy—better known as the Penguin Post Office—is Antarctica’s most charming outpost.

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

Two important concepts in evolutionary biology, mutualism and altruism, were first made famous by the colorful anarchist ...

In addition to low-lying valleys, covered lakes, and bizarre sub-glacial rivers, the Antarctic ice is also hiding massive ...

a sedimentologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute of Germany who studies climate history in Antarctica, told Live Science. "What does it tell us about our own existence on this planet?" ...