Vicki Koterba is preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Antarctica, heading south on a Smithsonian-sponsored educational ...

Strip away Antarctica’s ice and the familiar white disc at the bottom of the map dissolves into something far stranger: a ...

After nearly a century of exploring the continent, and sometimes being food, dogs were kicked out of Antarctica via an ...

Headlines about melting ice sheets usually focus on what is lost and then move on. What comes next is often overlooked, even ...

Like all glaciers, Thwaites is made of solid ice, but as gravity pulls it toward sea level, it moves like a thick, heavy ...

Novel findings from University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado, Boulder, thermochronologist Jeff Benowitz have shed light on the complex and enigmatic ...

In the past, when West Antarctica melted, there was a rapid uptick in onshore geological activity in the area.

The claim: 'Man' can't advance more than 500 kilometers past Antarctic 'ice wall' A Dec. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a picture of a research vessel positioned near a tall, sheer ...

Cracking, creaking ice at the bottom of the world is quietly shaping the future climate you live in. New research from ...

Anthropogenic warming is projected to intensify disproportionately in polar regions relative to the global average — a ...

There are few frontiers in the world that can still be said to be unexplored. One of these terra incognita is the land ...

Planes crossing the top of the world have become so normal that most people barely notice them anymore. Even so, hardly any ...