In 2022, an international team of scientists sent a 20-foot-long autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named “Ran” to traverse ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

An ancient landscape, likely once home to rivers and forests, has been found beneath a mile of ice in Antarctica. The area, ...

Drilling 500 metres through the ice sheet to the Antarctic mainland beneath, they encountered water and sedimentary rock. For the hot water drilling, they used a high-pressure nozzle and water at ...

Antarctica’s ice sheets have been losing mass for decades due to climate change. Many glaciers and shelves are thinning, and large icebergs are calving more often. “The ice loss from the Antarctic Ice ...

The changes in the ice cover at the Earth’s South Pole remain a key issue in global climate research. Polar researcher Horgan will return to the Antarctic in the southern summer of 2025/2026. During ...

The lingering Laurentide Ice Sheet may have masked the true extent of Antarctic ice loss—offering a warning for future change. 100% = global mean sea level rise; areas above saw higher-than ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: On a recent expedition to Antarctica, researchers made a startling discovery after part of a huge ice sheet broke off. In the frigid waters originally ...

Then the cores are flown to McMurdo Station [U.S. Antarctic research station] and are then sent to the United States on a cargo ship in special freezers. Cores are divided into segments for different ...