With its glaciers and sub-zero temperatures, Antarctica hardly seems like a place of refuge. However, the now icy continent ...

Blood Falls in Antarctica flows unpredictably with iron-rich, salty water. Microbes inside survive without sunlight.

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

The Phenomenon of Melting Glaciers Melting glaciers are more than just a picturesque transformation of ice into water; they signify an environmental crisis unfolding before our eyes. These majestic ...

The Denman glacier in East Antarctica is one of the largest and fastest melting glaciers on the continent, and yet little is ...

It's been a year since the underwater vehicle Ran vanished beneath a glacier in Antarctica. Owned by the University of ...

Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica’s deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching plastic pollution has become. While not new, it’s the first time these tiny ...

A new large-scale study of crevasses on the Greenland Ice Sheet shows that those cracks are widening faster as the climate ...

Scientists at IFJ PAN discovered significant differences in plutonium isotope accumulation between hemispheres, with unique ...

Now that I was finally here among glaciers as big as warehouses, colonies of penguins and curious whales, I could see why so ...