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

Antarctica is the world's great cooling unit. This vital part of Earth's climate system is largely powered by the annual ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by successfully drilling a 2800-metre-long ice core, consisting of ice from the ...

Antarctic research has received a new boost thanks to a novel new technique providing new insights into how the paleoclimate ...

Social media posts are claiming to disprove the effects of climate change in Antarctica by comparing the amount of sea ice ...

A new study reveals Antarctica's ice sheet gained mass recently, but NASA data confirms ongoing long-term loss linked to global warming.

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

Ice cores are a pretty good way to get an idea ... Until fairly recently, the oldest ice recovered from the thickest part of Antarctic ice sheets was around 800,000 years old.

If Earth stays at its current levels of warming — below policymakers’ goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius — polar ice sheets may melt ...

a new race is under way in Antarctica, this time motivated by the need to understand one of the gravest threats facing humanity. While other ancient climate records exist, only the ancient ice ...