"The more we know about Earth's icy environments, the better we will be able to understand the other environments," said ...

Feathers from three penguin species – Adelie, gentoo and chinstrap – were collected during the 2010-11 breeding season by ...

Everyone knows Antarctica is cold and icy, but what's underneath the ice has been a mystery. Scientists used six decades' ...

Rutgers research sheds light on the prevalence of mercury pollution in the world's polar regionsIn 1962, when ...

A team of international scientists compiled decades of data to create a map showing the topography of Antarctica with the ice ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Once thought a block of worthless ice, this continent is in fact incredibly valuable and plays a key role in stabilizing ...

As the maps show, there's been a great ice loss all around Antarctica, but there are some ... Without this ice cover, dark patches of ocean are exposed instead, which absorbs sunlight rather ...

Unseen mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers lie under Antarctica’s mile-thick ice sheet. Changes to those hidden rivers ...

Never seen, perhaps, but that doesn't mean forever to remain unknown. For years, the British Antarctic Survey has been flying ...

Have you ever wondered what Antarctica might look like without ice? Now, a new map released this week gives ... ice shelves that push out over the ocean at the continent’s margin," the BAS ...