The loss of ice on Antarctica could expose vast swaths of land allowing access to valuable mineral resources on the frozen ...

Snowfall deep inside East Antarctica has increased in recent decades, and distant ocean temperature changes may be partly ...

A decade ago, Bradley Markle, an assistant professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado Boulder, noticed an odd pattern while sifting through temperature ...

The average temperature on the east Antarctic plateau broke records for the largest single increase in meteorological history. This happened in March 2022, and it’s just now making headlines outside ...

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

East Antarctica hosts the largest ice sheet on Earth, containing enough water to raise global sea levels by 52 meters (171 ...

A vast area of the Bellingshausen Sea should be covered by sea ice by now, with one expert calling the loss of ice ‘depressing’ ...

Antarctica just clocked a record-high temperature of 65 degrees. The measurement was taken on Thursday at the Esperanza Base along the continent’s Trinity Peninsula, according to the Washington Post.

Learn how slow-moving mantle waves inside Earth may have lifted Antarctica’s ancient mountains, creating cold highlands where ...

For a long time, the story seemed straightforward. As atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell and the planet cooled, large ice ...