Ice cores are a vertical column of ice extracted from glaciers and ice-sheets; they hold records of what the planet was like ...

Off the coast of Antarctica, the sea ice retreated toward the southernmost continent and, like a bottle cap taken off a soda ...

Buried Louisiana marshes show North America, not Antarctica, fueled the world’s dramatic sea level surge 9,000 years ago.

October 16 marked the arrival of the first aircraft at Rothera Research Station and the departure of the Falklands-flagged ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is Earth's largest oceanic current, circling around Antarctica from west to east in ...

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting -- yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers ...

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting - yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have remained stable, or even gained mass, in recent decades. Can it last?

Scientists found patches on the Antarctic seafloor called "seeps" where fluid and gas move up through sediments and into the ...

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) might be shifting to the north, reshaping the planet’s climate and ecosystems in the ...

Not all 26 were analyzed in detail, but a core group of 11 “winterers ... gibberish to most people but clearly understood by ‘ice’ folks”. Researchers and other staff who spent months in Antarctica ...

Greenland is melting, the Alps are melting and the Himalayas are melting—yet in one vast mountain region, huge glaciers have ...