Scientists have discovered 85 new active subglacial lakes beneath Antarctica, bringing the total to 231. These lakes fill, ...

Once back at the airbase, we will spend several days sorting and repacking. Some equipment will stay here in Antarctica for ...

Pink boulders led scientists to a massive granite formation buried under Antarctica’s ice, solving a decades-old geological ...

Analyses will help to reveal how far the West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated in the past — and what it might do in the future.

What lies beneath Antarctica’s massive ice sheet is more shocking than anyone imagined. Scientists have uncovered a hidden world of mountains, deep canyons, vast plains, and thousands of buried hills ...

Antarctic glacier bleeds red water, and scientists reveal hidden pressure beneath the mysterious millennial ice.

Scanning electron micrograph of very small and numerous bacterial cells inhabiting icy brine channels in Antarctica’s Lake Vida, which lies in the Victoria Valley, one of the northernmost of the ...

The Antarctic ice sheet does not behave as one single tipping element, but as a set of interacting basins with different critical thresholds. This is the finding of a new study by the Potsdam ...

None of the main research on the voyage of the Araon was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a sign of the difficult times for American science.

The 'IceCube,' a giant science experiment revealing the secrets of the universe's fundamental particle, the 'neutrino,' from under 2 km of Antarctic ice, has been upgraded approximately 15 years after ...

A new study shows that during the last two deglaciations, i.e., the transition from an ice age to the warm interglacial periods, meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet intensified stratification in ...

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