When ice freezes and melts, it creates vortices that drag warmer waters from the depths to the surface, where they eat away ...

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ...

Follow the Sikuliaq through the ship’s Facebook page.

Beneath kilometers of ice in East Antarctica, a team of geoscientists led by geophysicist Stewart Jamieson of Durham ...

The extracted ice block is six million years old, towards the end of the Miocene epoch, and can help to understand the planet ...

The 2025 Antarctic ozone hole is the fifth-smallest recorded in more than two decades, NASA and NOAA officials say.

Antarctica's 'doomsday glacier,' Thwaites, is collapsing faster than anticipated, threatening catastrophic sea level rise.

While continental in scale, the ozone hole over the Antarctic was small in 2025 compared to previous years and remains on ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach -40°C or lower in the interior, with the lowest ever temperature on Earth ...

Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier collapsed at record speed, revealing how quickly ice loss could drive sea level rise. A glacier ...

We take a look at a handful misconceptions about Antarctica, from its alleged populations of bears to its current ownership.

Working in Antarctica comes with risks most people never imagine. Because brutal winters make evacuation impossible for ...