A chunk of ice nearly twice the size of Rhode Island state is cracking off of an Antarctic glacier ... stability of the ice shelf." However, a rapid ice shelf collapse would not be unprecedented.

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

In the frigid waters originally hidden below, scientists discovered what appear to be new species of crustaceans, fish and other life forms.

Scientists found "a beautiful, thriving ecosystem" in a dark and isolated location: The former shadow of a glacier.

On January 13, when an iceberg the size of Chicago broke away from Antarctica’s immense George VI Ice Shelf, scientists in a nearby research vessel did something nobody had ever done.

Although the team obviously can’t tie zircon minerals to the Roman Empire’s collapse, their lengthy migration inside frozen chunks of glacier further underscore the 6th century ice age’s ...

He was moved to a detention center in Farmville, Virginia, in the middle of the night, and then to an ICE office in Richmond. Next, he was taken to an airport, shackled, and flown to a detention ...

AP Photo/Matias Delacroix Three days after the roof of the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, collapsed early Tuesday, killing 221 people, the precise cause of the collapse ...