The future of one of Antarctica's most iconic glaciers could be far more dramatic than scientists previously thought. Using ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every smear starts to read like a diary.

Antarctica has lost roughly 12,820 square kilometers of grounded ice, an area about 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles, ...

Antarctica has lost enough ice over the last 30 years to cover the City of Los Angeles area 10 times over, according to new research. Glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine, used ...

Researchers have confirmed a subglacial river system channeling water more than 1,500 feet beneath the Antarctic ice sheet, where episodic surges flush into the ocean cavity under the Ross Ice Shelf.

A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth in the Southern Ocean over previous glacial cycles, but not in the way ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed ...