The unexploded ordnance beneath one of Antarctica’s many penguin colonies probably poses no risk to humans working nearby. While this may seem like a crazy sentence to write, it accurately reflects ...

Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.

A total collapse of the roughly 80-mile-wide Thwaites Glacier, the widest in the world, would trigger changes that could lead ...

The point of inaccessibility is therefore the furthest location of the continent from any shore that is therefore also the hardest to reach, especially on the uninhabited continent like Antarctica.

A top scientist at the British Antarctic Survey recently told the Guardian that she believes we may have already crossed a ...

Melting glaciers may be setting off volcanoes worldwide, triggering eruptions and possibly accelerating climate change.

Long-lost 1960s aerial photos let Copenhagen researchers watch Antarctica’s Wordie Ice Shelf crumble in slow motion. By fusing film with satellites, they discovered warm ocean water, not surface ponds ...

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

Antarctica's Hidden Mountains Date Back 500 Million Years Ago: Study The Gamburtsev Mountains are buried beneath the highest point of the East Antarctica ice sheet. They were first discovered by a ...

From this New Zealand city, the Air Force made frequent flights to Antarctica in support of the National Science Foundation program there. This year’s summer program was notable for two reasons.

Beijing’s aim to declare a special managed area at the ice sheet’s highest point is a test of Antarctic governance. China has become more and more active in Antarctica in recent years – both in ...

It is no strange sight to see icebergs break off of the Antarctic ice cap and drift away, like the gigantic sheet of ice that is currently heading for the island of South Georgia. But climate ...