Beneath Antarctica’s frozen seafloor, scientists have uncovered traces of an ancient, temperate rainforest that thrived near ...

Scientists studying ancient ocean sediments discovered a surprising link between the shrinking of West Antarctica’s ice and ...

Scientists have recovered a deep ice core from a remote part of East Antarctica as they search for answers to one of the most ...

Melting ice from West Antarctica once delivered huge amounts of iron to the Southern Ocean, but algae growth did not increase as expected. Researchers found the iron was in a form that marine life ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ice cave and cores storage at the Concordia Station in Antarctica. (© Gaetano MaccrÌ-PNRA-IPEV) Designed to protect ice cores from ...

Antarctica is known today as a frozen continent, but its ice holds a long record of past climates. Scientists drilling through more than 2,000 yards of ice have found signs that the icy era is much ...

Beneath Antarctica’s frozen silence, scientists have mapped hundreds of hidden volcanoes, revealing unseen forces that quietly shape ice movement, sea levels, and the continent’s uncertain future.

If you’ve been following Miles O’Brien’s reports from Antarctica, you know he’s with an international group of researchers ...

A study in Nature Geoscience reveals that changes in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) closely tracked marine algae growth ...

ROME (AP) — Scientists in Antarctica on Wednesday inaugurated the first global repository of mountain ice cores, preserving the history of the Earth’s atmosphere in a frozen vault for future ...