Two fascinating discoveries push our understanding of Antarctica far beyond the icy surface we know. One reveals a preserved ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

An Australian research team deployed a robotic ocean probe in April 2024 to study Antarctica's hidden depths. The ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Landscapes left behind by ancient rivers and buried beneath the Antarctic ice may affect the rate of ice loss, researchers report in Nature Geoscience. The team used radio echo sounding, a technique ...

An autonomous submarine named Ran discovers strange structures under the Dotson Ice Shelf in Antarctica, before mysteriously disappearing.

The continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they ...

Our reporter sends a dispatch from the icebreaker Araon, currently on its way to Antarctica, about the scientists, their work ...

Deep beneath the massive sheet of ice that covers much of west Antarctica, scientists have discovered a mysterious chain of hidden lakes that may be causing ice streams to slip as they flow into the ...

The ice caps which cover our planet's poles are key to understanding global weather patterns and changing climate. But we still don't have a complete understanding of how they work, and what goes on ...

Russian scientists finally found the Antarctic freshwater lake they’ve been looking for after drilling for over 20 years. Located more than 2 miles beneath the ice’s surface, Lake Vostok has been ...

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