Though ice sheet melting is widely talked of and debated, there is limited knowledge about what happens after the period of ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A shiny new red post box has been given as a gift from King Charles III to staff at a remote Antarctic research station. The ...

"If you're doing fieldwork for many months, the feeling of receiving a letter—an actual tangible—letter is such a lift," said ...

An armed forces veteran is spending Christmas more than 10,000 miles away from home in one of the planet's most challenging ...

On Sunday, Catherine Drysdale became the first female winner in the race's 20-year history, and a Canadian runner made the ...