Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans ...

The Araon (pronounced “ah rah own”) is roughly 360 feet long and can break through a meter of flat ice at a speed of 3 knots, ...

New study explains how winter sea ice and melting ice shelves control the formation of deep ocean water in Antarctica.

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

A shiny new red post box has been given as a gift from King Charles III to staff at a remote Antarctic research station. The ...

"If you're doing fieldwork for many months, the feeling of receiving a letter—an actual tangible—letter is such a lift," said ...

Tom Hunt's attempt to break Vincent Colliard's blistering Hercules Inlet to South Pole speed record has come up short by ...

On Sunday, Catherine Drysdale became the first female winner in the race's 20-year history, and a Canadian runner made the ...