Strange structures found lurking beneath Antarctic ice ...

The world's largest iceberg has finally ended its ocean odyssey, crumbling into chunks just shy of its 40th birthday.

Ice calving, the dramatic breaking of colossal icebergs, is a natural glacier process amplified by global warming. Witnessed ...

When winter sneaks in, the people around the country get prepared for the days ahead. During the summer, we experience some ...

An activist group has put emperor penguins at risk of extinction as climate change creates and inhospitable habitat for them ...

A new analysis projects that as much as 120,610 square kilometers of new, ice-free land could emerge in Antarctica by 2300. Credit: NASA/Jim Ross A warming climate could expose a Pennsylvania-sized ...

Though under 0.6% of Antarctica is estimated to be free of ice cover today, scientists predict there will be up to a 550% ...

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

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 ...

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 ...