Scientists have uncovered a new threat hiding under the floating edges of Antarctica: fast moving, stormlike swirls of water ...

The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still don't have a complete understanding of how they work, and what goes on ...

Russian scientists finally found the Antarctic freshwater lake they’ve been looking for after drilling for over 20 years. Located more than 2 miles beneath the ice’s surface, Lake Vostok has been ...

Around 9,000 years ago, East Antarctica went through a dramatic meltdown that was anything but isolated. Scientists have discovered that warm deep ocean water surged beneath the region’s floating ice ...

Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica—often called the "Doomsday Glacier"—is one of the fastest-changing ice–ocean systems on Earth, and its future remains a major uncertainty in global sea-level rise ...

The time points beyond which individual Antarctic ice shelves could no longer exist in their current form have been estimated under several anthropogenic emission scenarios. These projections take ...

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