When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes ...

Enough of this one,” astrophysicist Denis Barkats remarked in a Nottingham University documentary, while standing in front of ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, a new study suggests, a warming event led to the release of carbon dioxide from deep in the ...

After a 12-day crossing, and a hard slog through sea ice, the field work on this Antarctic expedition is ready to start.

After 10 days with only the open ocean and the occasional iceberg at our sides, sailing into the sea ice felt like crossing ...

A wildlife photographer has captured what are believed to be the first underwater images of the rare, elusive Ross seal.

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

When we think of global warming, what first comes to mind is the air: crushing heat waves that are felt rather than seen, ...

Antarctica’s iceberg A‑23A displays brilliant blue meltwater pools on its surface. NASA satellites reveal its slow breakup, ...

After nearly a century of exploring the continent, and sometimes being food, dogs were kicked out of Antarctica via an ...