By Shanna Hanbury The strongest ocean current on Earth circles Antarctica. It’s the primary way water moves between the ...

One of the biggest challenges in predicting Antarctica's deeply uncertain future is understanding exactly what's driving its ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

NBC’s Chase Cain reports from Antarctica, where melting ice is accelerating sea level rise and disrupting global weather ...

Funding for the National Science Foundation, which finances research at US bases on the icy continent, has already been ...

UCT researchers explored Antarctica’s Fimbul Ice Shelf, collecting data to model future climate shifts and marking South ...

The rate of ice melting in Antarctica could be underestimated by current scientific models, according to research examining ...

But if the current begins to weaken, it would allow warmer water to seep in closer to the ice shelves, speeding up the melting of Antarctic ice. “Faster ice melting could then lead to further ...

But beneath Antarctica’s frozen landscape, volcanoes quietly shape Earth's climate in surprising ways. Recent scientific studies reveal that melting ice sheets in West Antarctica might trigger ...

Antarctica’s summer sea ice has dropped to one of its lowest extents ever recorded, shrinking to levels 30% below the ...

An iceberg the size of Chicago broke off am Antarctic ice shelf to reveal a thriving ecosystem underneath, according to ...

A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including ...