A team led by Anna Wahlin, a professor of oceanographic physics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, made a remarkable ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of three ...

Antarctica faces abrupt, irreversible climate changes as warming nears 1.5 °C, threatening ice, oceans, ecosystems, and ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Scientists ...

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...

A rogue Argo oceanographic float drifted away to accidentally collect data on one of Antarctica’s most inaccessible regions.

The consequences will be catastrophic. For the Antarctic ice sheet to melt almost completely, a rise in average global ...

Colgate University’s Division of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (NASC) held the final iteration of its NASC Colloquium ...

Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica -- widely known as the "Doomsday Glacier" -- is changing more quickly than almost any other ice-ocean system on the planet. Its future behavior remains one of the ...