Almost 90% of Antarctica's land is covered in a thick layer of ice — around 1.3 miles (2.2 kilometers) deep, on average — and ...

James  Witlow  Delano travels to Union Glacier to join scientists revealing how subtle shifts in ice and bedrock, are uncovering the planet’s climate future ...

East Antarctica’s Wilkes Land and Queen Mary Land region recorded 108 gigatons of average ice sheet mass gain per year from ...

Scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to uncover a buried river system that may reshape predictions of melting and ...

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, ...

Purple pigmentation in a diverse array of algae absorbs heat and creates a feedback loop responsible for 2% of total daily ...

The authors behind that study attempted to find such old ice, taking a “debris-rich ice core” measuring 944 centimeters (372 ...

Antarctica has gained ice in recent years, despite increasing average global temperatures and climate change, a new study finds. Using data from NASA satellites, researchers from Tongji University ...

Scientists have been warning that Antarctica has been losing ice mass at an alarming rate over the past couple decades. The consequences of which will raise sea levels around the world.

The Antarctic Ice Sheet gained mass between 2021 and 2023, a dramatic reversal from decades of loss. Four key glacier basins in East Antarctica showed significant growth due to increased snowfall.

like these Adelie penguins near Paulet Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. But what's below the ice these penguins waddle on every day? . | Credit: Patrick J. Endres via Getty Images Almost 90% of ...