Signed in 1959 and effective since 1961, the Antarctic Treaty is a landmark international agreement that designates ...

Another day, another retreating glacier. Today's casualty is Antarctica's Cadman Glacier, located on the western coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. Using satellite images and in-situ oceanographic ...

A23a, the world's largest and oldest iceberg, is finally cruising again through icy ocean waters after an unexpected delay. This summer, A23a got stuck near the South Orkney Islands, twirling in ...

Evidence from a 2,000-foot-long ice core reveals that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank suddenly and dramatically around 8,000 years ago, according to new research — providing an alarming insight ...

Something strange is happening to the Antarctic’s sea ice. The areal expanse of floating ice fringing the continent is not only at a record low for this time of year — surpassing a record just set in ...

Among the more inhospitable segments of the earth’s surface, the frigid continent of Antarctica remains—for scientistsצne of the most magnetic. There is still so much to learn that more than a dozen ...