When sea ice forms later, the communities of tiny algae that live within it change too. Detecting these early signals now ...

The sea ice in Antarctica’s McMurdo Sound has held secrets beneath its surface for decades. Now, scientists have unlocked ...

An abrupt change in Antarctica has caused the continent to gain ice. But this increase, documented in NASA satellite data, is ...

Scientists have discovered a rare deep-sea predator beneath the ice of Antarctica. Stygiomedusa gigantea, known as the giant ...

The study by the international team of researchers is a stepping stone towards better understanding the watercourses beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Scientists drilled through Antarctic ice to uncover a buried river system that may reshape predictions of melting and sea-level rise.

They used "wave crashing," creating a wave to break up an ice platform and trap the seal ... and kill a seal in the icy waters surrounding Antarctica. The video, part of the BBC's new "Frozen ...

In the autumn of 2021, an international team of researchers from New Zealand's Antarctic Science Platform set off toward the South Pole. Their destination was the Ross Ice Shelf in West Antarctica ...

such as penguins in Antarctica and polar bears in the Arctic, which use the ice as a platform for hunting. But the sea ice also helps stabilize ice on Antarctica. "Lower sea ice extent means that ...

Scientific Data (2025). Creative Commons. Scientists have unveiled the most detailed map yet of the landscape hidden beneath Antarctica's ice. The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen ...

"These robots are a platform to bring science instruments ... in 2022 found that thinning and crumbling away of Antarctica's ice shelf had reduced its mass by some 12 trillion tons since 1997 ...

The station is a globally important platform for gathering data on space ... NASA photo reveals a startling 300-foot-wide rift in Antarctic Ice Shelf Scientists in 1985 first discovered a hole ...