East Antarctica is the largest ice sheet on Earth. Alone, it holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by a ...

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

The discovery resets our understanding of how ice behaves in the frigid vastness of deep space and could influence our ...

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

The SSMIS data are used as input for this NSIDC-produced data set, which will therefore stop processing after 31 July 2025.

A top scientist at the British Antarctic Survey recently told the Guardian that she believes we may have already crossed a ...

Some of the best diving out there is found in the farthest reaches of the globe. Companies like Blue Green Expeditions ...

The melting of glaciers due to the climate crisis could make volcano eruptions more catastrophic than before, scientists ...

Antarctic blue ice plays a crucial role in surface energy balance and paleoclimate research. A high-accuracy and comprehensive dataset of blue ice areas (BIAs) is essential for understanding climate ...

Here, the new satellite reveals stunning variety within the tropical forest landscape. Green hues indicate forested areas; blue–purple tones suggest grasslands; and the red hues seen around Bolivia’s ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Scientists at the Australian Antarctic Partnership Program are just beginning to understand the dire effects of extremely low ...