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Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting ...
A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ice sheet. This water can lubricate the ice, allowing it to slide ...
When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...
The study, published in March in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, says the dramatic ice melt would redistribute the ...
Greenland’s government banned drilling for fossil fuels in 2021 — yet Donald Trump and his allies remain eager to see ...
Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...
The decline of the island’s ice and increasingly volatile weather have made it hard to maintain some Indigenous traditions.
Camp Century was built to store nukes beneath Greenland's ice. See photos of the underground, "Star Wars"-like site.
As autumn settled over Antarctica, sea ice began its seasonal return, with NASA capturing striking images of new growth in ...
In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.
High-speed drones will be put to the test in the extreme Arctic environment as part of a project to assess how quickly glaciers in Greenland are retreating ...
The Antarctic ice sheet behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid and may be more nonlinear than previously thought. This impacts its future stability and requires revisions to predictions of sea level rise.