Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Ancient ocean sediments reveal Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated repeatedly during past warm periods, offering clues to future ...

The Ice Memory Foundation on Wednesday opened the world’s first sanctuary for mountain ice cores in Antarctica, aiming to ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

ANTARCTICA (WKRC) - Scientists recently discovered amber fragments that suggest the snow-covered continent of Antarctica could have once been a lush jungle. The idea that Antarctica once looked like ...

In a new study, researchers explained that less is known about the topography beneath the ice of Antarctica than any other ...

A trust that protects historic heritage sites on Antarctica has announced it is sending a team on a 9,000-mile mission to the icy continent to safeguard a base from the impacts of climate change. As ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Daniella McCahey, Texas Tech University (THE CONVERSATION) As Midwinter Day approaches ...

After nearly a century of exploring the continent, and sometimes being food, dogs were kicked out of Antarctica via an ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single ...