A team of scientists has overcome a major challenge in predicting how Antarctic life will fare under future climate scenarios ...

Generations of Times journalists have journeyed there with scientists. Their coverage traces humankind’s changing ...

New Antarctica map reveals a landscape of hidden valleys and channels beneath ice, improving sea-level rise and ice flow ...

A four-year record from the heart of the Ross Ice Shelf shows how subtle changes could shape future sea level rise, ocean ...

From sealing captain Nathaniel Palmer to Adm. Richard Byrd and Quonset's role in Operation Deep Freeze, RI has left its mark ...

We know more about Mercury than we do about what's trapped below Antarctica's ice. The post Scientists Uncover Secret ...

Picture Antarctica not as a smooth, frozen plain, but as a rugged world of mountains, valleys, and deep channels buried beneath kilometers of ice. That unseen landscape is now coming into focus.

The remnants of ice attached to the coast offer astounding insights into the climate history of past millennia. An ...

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...

Up to 98 percent of Antarctica is caked in miles-thick ice sheets, some of which formed millions upon millions of years ago.