A strange object resembling a massive ship has been spotted on Google Earth in Antarctica, sending conspiracy theories into ...

When snow falls on the ice sheet, where subzero temperatures ensure it doesn’t melt. Antarctic temperatures regularly reach ...

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

Antarctica has long been seen as a remote, unchanging environment. Not any more. The ice-covered continent and the surrounding Southern Ocean are undergoing abrupt and alarming changes. Sea ice is ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Antarctica is home to around 20 million breeding pairs of penguins, like these Adelie penguins ...

What comes to mind when you think of Antarctica? Probably snow and ice. But a group of international scientists are shaking up what we think we know about the continent after unveiling a new, very ...

Far beneath Antarctica’s ice and fringing seas, scientists have revealed a labyrinth of more than 300 hidden canyons that ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll ...

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s ...

Forrest Johnson kicks off a quest to run seven marathons on seven continents in one week, completing Cape Town and heading ...

New evidence suggests that West Antarctica - which holds around 5 METERS of sea level rise - is melting a lot faster than scientists once thought. Weathered is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...