The vast Antarctic Ice Sheet holds more than half of Earth's freshwater. In several places around the continent, the ice ...

By the end of 2024, Antarctic sea ice extent had recovered to 7.3 million square kilometres (2.8 million square miles) — very close to the 1981 to 2010 average, NSIDC said. This erased the record and ...

US scientists Antarctic sea ice rebounded in December after a long period of record lows, US scientists said, giving pause to speculation that Earth's frozen continent could be undergoing a permanent ...

Christchurch, New Zealand - Recent Chinese research icebreaker Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon 2, is about to start oceanic survey mission on Thursday, after completing supply replenishment and personnel ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the Beyond EPICA-Oldest Ice project has achieved a historic milestone this week, by ...

The fourth Antarctic campaign of the “Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice” project, funded by the European Commission, has achieved a ...

An international team of scientists successfully drilled a 2,800-meter-long ice core, reaching the bedrock beneath the Antarctic ice sheet. These ice ...

Home > Press release: More than 1.2 million years old ice core ...

As ice recedes, hidden volcanoes under Antarctica awaken, reshaping predictions for climate change. When glaciers melt, they ...

Widespread coastal melting occurred in Antarctica through the second half of December and is continuing in the first few days of the new year in several areas. Nearly every region with routine surface ...

A major scientific review of 3,000 studies conducted by researchers from California may have found what is driving the ...

Scientists have revealed they may have discovered what's causing the unexplained rise in cancer cases across the world. In ...