Satellite imagery has revealed a yet-to-be-explained rise in the Southern Ocean's salinity. It could be a key factor in the decline of the region's sea ice.

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.

New research from the Chilean Patagonia has identified a link between glacial retreat and underground volcanic activity ...

Animal species that live in environments as harsh as the Antarctic have many incredible adaptations to help them survive.

The work confirms the theory that the pressure applied by heavy ice makes it harder for magma to reach the surface, instead ...

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

A long-lost photo snapped from a Navy plane in 1966 has become the unlikely key to understanding how Antarcticas ...

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