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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the planet's largest ice sheet. Here, the continent experienced significant ice loss and breakup ...

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

In a landmark study published in Science, researchers have unveiled a high-resolution map of the Antarctic bed. This study ...

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 continent’s ice is melting and raising sea levels worldwide. Our journalists will be sending regular dispatches as they head there with scientists trying to ...

The Thwaites and Pine Island glaciers, located in the Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), are among the fastest-melting glaciers on Earth. Together, they are losing ice more ...

The ice that now covers West Antarctica was not there 3.6 million years ago, after a massive collapse of the ice sheet during a warming period. Anna Ruth Halberstadt, CC BY-NC-ND Christine Siddoway, ...

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

A British war veteran who lost both his legs in Afghanistan has become the first double above-knee amputee to summit the highest peaks on every continent in the world. World record-breaking ...

When an underwater earthquake rattles deep below Antarctica’s icy waters, the motion may set off a chain reaction that causes tiny organisms called phytoplankton to rapidly multiply at the ocean ...