Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

By systematically assessing data gathered by different methods, researchers refined estimates of global glacier melt and its ...

"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Led by Dr Daniel Price of Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC’s) School of Earth and Environment, the ...

Researchers took advantage of a rare chance to explore a new expanse of seafloor exposed by the breakup of an Antarctic ice ...

The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts ...

The world has lost 5% of its ice volume over the past 20 years, with an annual melt of 273 billion tons, according to a ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...