For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking faster than expected. New research shows how winds, ocean heat, and feedback loops caused this ...

Two years ago, a robotic submersible ventured under the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica and never returned, lost somewhere in the icy depths. It was a sad loss for polar research, but it hasn’t taken ...

For decades, the frozen Antarctic wilderness at the bottom of the world defied global warming trends, with ice levels ...

In early 2024, the Ran, a six-meter autonomous submarine, disappeared without a trace beneath Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf.

A rare dataset collected by instruments at the point where Antarctica's largest ice shelf begins to float reveals ocean processes that drive melting at this critical part of the continent. During a ...

A sweeping new satellite analysis shows that Antarctica has lost nearly 5,000 square miles (12,950 square kilometers) of grounded ice over the past three decades — an area roughly twice as big as ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

The new map revealed tens of thousands of previously undiscovered landforms. Alexey Belenkiy via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-SA-3.0 Scientists have long known more about the surfaces of some other ...