Maps created by combining different models of glaciers and ice sheets reveal the way water is flowing deep beneath Antarctica ...

Australian Antarctic Program scientists have released the most comprehensive database of species living in the ice-free areas ...

When polar regions melt, the vaults are thrown open – “ancient water, carbon, and microbial life return to the surface to shape and change the world.” ...

More than two hundred days of successful drilling and ice core processing operations occurred across four field seasons, and in the harsh environment of the central Antarctic plateau. At an ...

Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, is among 50 people from around the ...

Little wonder the poles can seem timeless, places of desolate beauty – tundra and rock in the north, and wind and ice in the ...

By using a fiber-optic cable to detect tiny vibrations a mile below the surface, scientists discovered a surprising way that ...

Arctic sea ice has now dipped to its second lowest extent for January, with the edge of the ice field pushed well north ... Meanwhile, in the Antarctic, despite a promising start to the month ...

At a site in Eastern Antarctica known as Little Dome C Field Base. Each of the last four ... time capsule roughly 1.2 million years old. The ice column is the length of six Empire State buildings.

The deep field campsite at Bunger Hills ... On a remote stretch of coastline in East Antarctica, a team of scientists is about to peer beneath the sea ice here for the first time.