An international team of scientists say they’ve successfully drilled one of the oldest ice cores yet, penetrating nearly 2 ...

Widespread coastal melting occurred in Antarctica through the second half of December and is continuing in the first few days of the new year in several areas. Nearly every region with routine surface ...

The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

Under the ice cover accumulated over thousands of years lies the history of carbon dioxide fluctuations, providing insight ...

Melt events on both sides of the Antarctic Peninsula and along the Dronning Maud coastal ice shelves between December 15 and 19 combined to produce an early-season record melt extent of just below ...

This type of ice shields the continent's ice from ocean waves. In the process, distinct ecological habitats for species ...

Operation Highjump was an enormous U.S. military expedition to Antarctica that began in December 1946 and ultimately lasted ...

The claim: 'Man' can't advance more than 500 kilometers past Antarctic 'ice wall' A Dec. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a research vessel positioned near a tall ...

MILWAUKEE — A cool December may be priming the Great Lakes for a starkly different ice season after scientists saw a record-low level of ice cover this year, according to a new forecast. The U.S.

The decline of sea ice around Antarctica is fueling more frequent storms in the Southern Ocean, a new study finds.