East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...
Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...
Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...
For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...
The Kharkovchanka was a Soviet Antarctic vehicle built from tank technology, aircraft-style cabin ideas, and the brutal need ...
Fractures racing across Antarctica’s Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf are severing its last structural anchor to a submarine ridge, ...
More than 40 years after it was collected, an Antarctic fossil has been recognized as a far more consequential discovery than anyone first realized, according to Sci.News. The bone is now considered ...
The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...
The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...
During an expedition to Antarctica, scientists discovered a species of sea squirt that may promise a new cancer treatment.
An award-winning film follows Māori astronomer Rangi Matamua and te reo expert Mataia Keepa as they visit Antarctica.