A new study found parts of Antartica could pass a tipping point for mass ice sheet losses as soon as 2050 – pushing sea ...

Xuelong 2, one of the ships from China's 41st Antarctic expedition team, departs November 1, 2024 in Guangzhou, South China's ...

Expedition leader Tim Jarvis and ... 100 years after Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary Antarctic survival journey, a team of British and Australian explorers have completed their expedition ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to researchers.

This team of scientists are drilling deep into an ice sheet, 650 metres in fact, to extract a piece of Antarctic ice core. Their tent is pitched in the isolated, hostile and uninhabited icy ...

”We are now ready to face the harsh environment of Antarctica early in 2012 and hopefully we will live up to Scott's epic legacy.” The team has now completed all their training.

who were part of the 2041 ClimateForce Antarctica Expedition in March, said that temperatures were rising in the continent and that was bad news for us. The melting of ice sheets in Antarctica is ...

Bulges might appear when lakes under the ice sheet fill, or disappear when they empty. More than 140 active subglacial lakes have been identified beneath Antarctica over the past two decades.

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ice loss. A vast network of lakes and streams lies beneath the thick ...