Researchers found ancient river-carved plains beneath East Antarctica that may help slow ice loss and improve sea-level rise ...

Hidden beneath the thick ice sheet of East Antarctica, a team of researchers has uncovered the remnants of vast prehistoric river landscapes. These ancient, river-carved plains, preserved for millions ...

Antarctica's ice paradox has yet another puzzling layer. Not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year, but an underwater robot now shows the ice is also much thicker than was previously ...

Scientists have drilled down into the ice and extracted a core which is 2.8km long where the deepest part could be up to ...

In a small, refrigerated room at a Brussels university, parka-wearing scientists chop up Antarctic ice cores tens of ...

The remains of landscapes thought to have formed when ancient rivers flowed across East Antarctica have been discovered—and ...

Science Where Thick Ice Sheets in Antarctica Meet the Ground, Small Changes Could Have Big Consequences Scientists say their models suggest that big tracts of East Antarctica’s ice sheets could ...

The Larson C ice shelf is a colossal block of sea ice off Antarctica's coast. It covers about 2,000 square miles of open ocean, and is 1,100 feet thick at the edge (and thicker toward the middle).

Evidence of algae growth and climate simulations reveal the Arctic had seasonal ice, not a permanent ice shelf, for much of ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in ...

The findings were published today (Nov. 24) in the journal Nature Geoscience. Like icebergs, much of Antarctica's floating sea ice is underwater, hidden from satellites that track seasonal sea ice.

Antarctica's ice paradox has yet another puzzling layer. Not only is the amount of sea ice increasing each year, but an underwater robot now shows the ice is also much thicker than was previously ...