Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to levels 30% below the ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...

We know how high the top of the ice that covers Antarctica reaches from sea level. Mapping the topography of a mass that is open to the sky is relatively straightforward. By forging a more accurate ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

Researchers at DTU Space, at The Technical University of Denmark, have used unique NASA satellite data to create a picture of Antarctic sea ice ...

One of the most astonishing discoveries was evidence from fossils that Antarctica had once been part of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana — a warm and ice-free terrain, teeming with life.

Chen Zhao is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Dr Zhao is affiliated with Australian Antarctic Program Partnership (AAPP), at the Institute ...