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 ...
Fractures racing across Antarctica’s Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf are severing its last structural anchor to a submarine ridge, ...
For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...
Dinosaur fossils are rare to find in Antarctica because of the unforgiving ice caps. But millions of years ago, the region ...
This is the first evidence of dinosaurs ever collected from Antarctica. (British Antarctic Survey) A fossil that has been ...
Antarctica is a destination of staggering extremes – home to the largest ice sheet on the planet, soaring 14,700-foot ...
Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...
Temperatures have climbed up to 45 degrees Fahrenheit above normal, stopping ice from forming in the dead of Antarctic winter.
The marine rock around the fossil also suggests the animal likely ended up at sea after it died.
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...
Glaciers contain priceless information about the Earth’s climate history. Ice Memory Foundation is leading a project to preserve pieces of these glaciers before rising temperatures erase them.