Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found ...

NASA satellite measurements calculate that since 2004, Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings.

In the process, they have also found an explanation for the mysterious discovery of ancient material from Antarctica near South Orkney, an island to the southwest of South Georgia. Ice caps grow ...

A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have successfully conducted an ice-cap detection experiment in Antarctica using a domestically developed ultra-wideband hyperspectral microwave radiometer ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new ...

The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...

The two largest ice caps on the planet, in Antarctica and Greenland, have already lost an average of a combined 430 billion tons a year since 2006. According to UN climate experts, the oceans rose ...

It's part of their project to ski the 20 largest ice caps, but they will also attempt the first unsupported N-S crossing of ...