Antarctica's patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted ...

The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project ...

The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.

A unique ice core is currently being examined in the Alfred Wegener Institute's ice laboratory: the oldest continuous ice core that has ever been drilled on Earth. As part of the EU-funded Beyond ...

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

Australian scientists have started analysing the first batch of samples from the "Million Year Ice Core" project.

One such attraction is a 3-million-year-old volcano on Edinburgh Hill in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. A video ...

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica, uncovering a 1.2-million-year-old ice core. This ancient ice holds valuable data on past climate conditions, which could help us ...

Antarctica’s patterns of stark seasonal changes, with months of darkness followed by a summer of 24-hour daylight, prompted us to explore how a Maori lunar and environmental calendar (Maramataka) ...