"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast expanse spanning over 10 million square kilometers, has long concealed a landscape ...

Reading up on Antarctica's natural history and golden age of exploration can make your trip more entertaining and educational ...

With Antarctica's climate warming at an ... This is because sea ice there is far less reliable than before. When the climate was cooler, he and colleagues used to place waterproof suitcases ...

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the ...

The ice, some of the oldest drilled ... the candidate areas to find the right site before drilling started.” Little Dome C is high on the central Antarctic plateau, reaching an altitude of ...

The world’s largest iceberg, A23a, is heading north from Antarctica toward South Georgia, a British Overseas Territory in the ...

At 1.2-million-years-old, a newly uncovered Antarctic ice core represents the oldest known ice on the planet. The 1.7 mile-long ice core was recovered from over 9,000 feet (2,800 meters ...

A voyage to the great White Continent is both a dream come true and a call to arms, to protect our icy poles and, in turn, ...

How should you pack for a journey to the White Continent? Here's what you need to know about essential and non-essential items.

Humans have been recording the weather for thousands of years. Antarctic ice, however, has been at it for over a million. An international team of scientists has extracted a 1.74-mile-long (2.8 ...

The frozen continent has never been so desirable. But as other nations try to get in on the action, a race to the bottom ...