Observations suggest a major melting event at the Ross Ice Shelf was connected to atmospheric turbulence. The Ross Ice Shelf ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously ...

Grounded ice rests on the bedrock of the Antarctic continent, while ice shelves float above the rock on a pool of seawater.

Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information. In an open-access study published Feb. 27 in Geophysical ...

Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate scientists have retrieved a rare 23-million-year record of sediments that helps demonstrate why the planet’s southern ...

Scientists have been debating why Antarctic sea ice, which once seemed impervious to climate change, has shrunk dramatically in the past decade. Now research suggests stronger winds have churned up ...

Scientists at MIT’s Haystack Observatory have found that atmospheric turbulence above the Ross Ice Shelf surged fourfold during a major surface melt event in January 2016, using Global Navigation ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Drilling through 500 feet of floating ice into the Antarctic Ocean floor, climate ...

How has climate change impacted Antarctic ice and local wildlife? This is what a recent study published in Nature Climate Change hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how Antarctic ...

China's 42nd Antarctic expedition team has successfully completed the country's first ever hot-water drilling test in Antarctica, reaching a depth of 3,413 meters, the Ministry of Natural Resources ...