Volcanoes erupting isn’t what most people think of, but this scene could happen as the frozen continent melts, a study has ...

The same team previously drilled a core about 800,000 years old. The latest drilling went 2.8 kilometers (about 1.7 miles) deep, with a team of 16 scientists and support personnel drilling each summer ...

This newly extracted ice preserved a record of our planet’s climate history, continuous information on atmospheric ...

A Portsmouth scientist aboard a Royal Navy icebreaker is uncovering the damage plastic waste is having on Antarctica.

Scientists have drilled a deep hole in the Antarctic bedrock that may hold information that dates back more than a million years.

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

An international team of scientists successfully drilled a 2,800-meter-long ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. These ice ...

Analysis of the ancient ice is expected to show how Earth's atmosphere and climate have evolved. Scientists say it should ...

As ice recedes, hidden volcanoes under Antarctica awaken, reshaping predictions for climate change. When glaciers melt, they ...