A new modeling study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, suggests that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may be more ...

A key layer of water around Antarctica is getting saltier, potentially shifting storm tracks and accelerating sea-level rise, ...

Polynyas are one of Antarctica's great counterintuitive features: recurring areas of open water surrounded by vast expanses ...

Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier may be melting twice as much as previously predicted, even without additional global warming.

Learn how researchers study Lake Vostok beneath miles of Antarctic ice, and why genetic traces have sparked debate over what ...

There are areas on Earth that are less understood than the surfaces of some worlds in our Solar System. Antarctica’s landscape beneath its immense ice sheet is one of them. Hidden from view, this ...

Declining ice has led to saltier and denser water that could influence atmospheric circulation and weather in the Southern ...

The Antarctic ice sheet’s future depends how a chain of events plays out. A new study finds the evidence points in one direction.

The Kronshtadskiy subglacial lake near East Antarctica's Amery Ice Shelf was hidden beneath Antarctica's ice, but its ...

Antarctic sea ice reached its third-lowest winter peak in 2026, extending a decade of unusually low ice coverage and raising ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A massive chunk of sea ice in West Antarctica has not refrozen following a winter heatwave in the region – a dramatic change that ...

Quark Expeditions pilot Jonathan Mutch is working his fifth season in Antarctica, flying tourists to see penguins and icy ...