Scientists are preparing to drill one kilometre deep into Antarctica's ‘Doomsday Glacier’ in a bid to understand the ...

Researchers in Antarctica think they might have been missing an essential part of the puzzle when it comes to melting ...

The latest triumph in ocean technology comes from a small, rugged machine that slipped beneath Antarctic ice into a part of the planet no human has ever seen, gathered a torrent of data, and then did ...

Thwaites is considered one of the most critical glaciers on Earth due to its sheer size and its role in holding back large parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. If the glacier were to collapse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wildlife photographer has captured what is believed to be the first images of the rare, elusive Ross seal underwater "This ...

Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with potentially “far-reaching implications” for global sea level rise, according to a recent ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

In remote West Antarctica, two glaciers are melting. The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers account for more than a third of the total ice loss in Antarctica. Thwaites, roughly the size of Florida, is ...

It’s a $2 million gamble. Scientists with the University of Washington in conjunction with Paul G. Allen Philanthropies are sending robots to Antarctica for as long as a year in what will be the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A French diver disappeared under the ice during a routine dive on Tuesday, January 13. The French Polar Institute Paul-Emile ...