Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

Warming ocean waters are melting Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf at accelerating rates, highlighting a climate-driven trend with ...

If all the ice melted to liquid water ... While that scenario is extreme, it shows how much water is stored in Antarctica and how important it is to our climate. Antarctic ice sheets are the ...

And that’s not all: these jumps are triggered by disturbances in the Atlantic Meridional ... The analysis of this ice core, a ...

The atmosphere is constantly changing. Its composition has varied regularly over the course of the planet's climatic epochs, ...

And that's not all: these jumps are triggered by disturbances in the Atlantic Meridional ... Concordia Station, a ...

Yet all of that is, quite literally ... currently flying a set of nine-hour research flights over West Antarctica to monitor ice loss aboard a retrofitted 1966 Lockheed P-3 aircraft.

The result of Marlin’s unplanned observations was major for researchers at the UK-based University of East Anguila. For the first time, the research revealed how a major Antarctic ice shelf has been ...

ANTARCTICA IS THE only continent unbloodied by war. For over six decades peace on the frozen land mass has been kept by the Antarctic Treaty, an agreement signed in 1959 at the height of the cold war ...

A Belmont woman recently competed in a marathon, but not just any marathon, an ultra-marathon in Antarctica. Becca Pizzi won ...

Yet all of that is, quite literally ... including the melting of the ice sheets and glaciers in Antarctica that contribute to sea level rise." University of Exeter glaciologist Martin Siegert ...

When people bring up their bucket list of places to travel, common answers like Miami or Paris or even Mardi Gras in New ...