Frozen deep beneath Antarctica and Greenland lies something remarkable. Tiny bubbles of ancient air, locked away in ice for ...

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ice in Antarctica - the ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

At a remote field camp, scientists and engineers are on a mission to discover when and how fast the West Antarctic could melt ...

PUPILS from Colmers Farm Primary School in Rednal have designed flags now proudly flying in one of the coldest places on ...

An international team has set up a remote camp on the ice 700 km from the nearest base (New Zealand’s Scott Base) to attempt to drill for mud and rocks holding critical insights about the fate of the ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

If it were to melt completely, the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) holds enough ice to raise the global sea levels by 4 to 5 meters, or 13 to 16 ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon statements by polar scientists over the past 18 ...