About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The ...

New study explains how winter sea ice and melting ice shelves control the formation of deep ocean water in Antarctica.

Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered over the South Pole and ...

With a rise in global temperatures, Antarctica was facing extreme shrinkage in ice and weak ocean currents, and scientists warned about them.

Antarctica, one of the most remote places on Earth, teems with life. For tourists who make it this far south, the experience ...

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic ...

Leopard seals rank among the largest seal species on Earth, with adult females reaching nearly 12 feet in length and weighing ...

By measuring the ocean beneath ice shelves, scientists can better understand glacier melt and sea-level rise. The fate of the ...

Antarctica holds so much frozen water that if it vanished overnight, the shape of the planet’s coasts, climate and oceans ...

Kris Kringle, pudding and tying down the tree: what Christmas day looks like for Australian researchers in Antarctica.

An investigation into one of four places where a dense, cold type of water is known to exist has sparked alarm. Find out more ...