Stanford researchers have integrated machine learning with high-resolution satellite and aerial observations to analyze the ...

This ice cave was one stemming from the tongue of a glacier flowing from Mount Erebus, one of the most powerful volcanoes of ...

It is a world cut off from our own by thick blankets of floating ice, but some scientists are taking the plunge to learn how ...

Exploring ice caves is not as simple as it sounds, and requires careful preparation and adherence to safety measures. First ...

The world’s largest iceberg has run aground off the coast of a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean, according to British ...

A massive superberg, four times as big as New York City, has halted east of the southern tip of South America.

Antarctica's remote and mysterious current has a profound influence on the climate, food systems and Antarctic ecosystems.

Beneath Antarctica’s Mount Erebus, a hidden world of volcanic ice caves harbors thriving microbial life, offering a glimpse ...

Melting ice sheets are slowing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the world's strongest ocean current, researchers have ...

The importance of these results for research in climate change cannot be overestimated. The Antarctic ice sheet, which can trigger a global sea level rise of 70 meters should it melt, is the ...

With high carbon dioxide, low oxygen and no photosynthesis, here’s how an entire ecosystem persists in Movile Cave, one of the most extreme environments on Earth.

Sandwiched between the freezing cold of Earth’s coldest continent and the warmth of its southernmost active volcano, the ...